SOLUTION: A company makes steel rods shaped like cylinders. Each rod has a radius of 3 cm and a height of 20 cm. How much steel will the company need to make 297 rods?

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Question 1192068: A company makes steel rods shaped like cylinders. Each rod has a radius of 3 cm and a height of 20 cm. How much steel will the company need to make 297 rods?
Answer by ikleyn(52795) About Me  (Show Source):
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Having the radius and the height, calculate the volume of each individual rod as a volume of a cylinder

    V = pi%2Ar%5E2%2Ah.


Then multiply the volume of each individual cylinder by 297 to get the answer.

You are instructed. The rest is making simple arithmetic.