SOLUTION: A cylindrical container has a base area of 100 cm^2 and is 12 cm high. If the container is one-third filled with water, what is the volume of the water in the container?

Question 150915: A cylindrical container has a base area of 100 cm^2 and is 12 cm high. If the container is one-third filled with water, what is the volume of the water in the container?
Found 2 solutions by vleith, jojo14344:
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Volume of a cylinder is given by

We are given the area of the base and the height
Our cylinder is 1/3 full.
So

cubic centimeter

Answer by jojo14344(1513) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We know the in finding the of the container =
The is given which is , but we don't have the radius, .
Since is given, we can get it there, with the formula,
---- area on the top and base + area on the sides

Substituting & re-arranging,

by Quadratic eqn, , , ,

----->
----->
USE
So
cc
Thank you,
Jojo
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