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I have a problem I need help with. The problem is asking me to find the volume of a tall soft drink cup which has a top radius of 1.5, height of 8, and bottom radius of 1. The problem wants me to give the answer in fraction form?
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document.write( "Weird-looking cup! That drawing is to scale.  Oh well!\r\n" );
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document.write( "The formula for the volume of a paper cup (or a lamp shade if upside down)\r\n" );
document.write( "is found at this site:\r\n" );
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document.write( "http://calculus-geometry.hubpages.com/hub/Volume-of-a-Truncated-Cone-Conical-Frustum#\r\n" );
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document.write( " where a and b are the two radii, it doesn't matter which is which.\r\n" );
document.write( "And h = the height.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since you want fraction form, we'll change the decimal 1.5 to a fraction\r\n" );
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document.write( "And we'll use the approximate fraction for  which is \r\n" );
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document.write( "Invert the 3 and multiply.  Simplify the parentheses on the right.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Get LCD of 4 in the parentheses on the right:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The 4 on the bottom of the second fraction goes into the 176 \r\n" );
document.write( "on the top of the first fraction 44 times.  So we have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Multiply tops and bottoms:\r\n" );
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document.write( ", the fraction form\r\n" );
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