SOLUTION: A food company distributes its tomato soup in two cans of different sizes. For the larger can, both the diameter and the height have been increased by 25%.
By what percentage
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Question 167877: A food company distributes its tomato soup in two cans of different sizes. For the larger can, both the diameter and the height have been increased by 25%.
By what percentage does the volume of the can increase from the smaller can to the larger can?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! . For the larger can, both the diameter and the height have been increased by 25%.
By what percentage does the volume of the can increase from the smaller can to the larger can?
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Volume =
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original can r=1, h=1
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New can r = 1.25; new h = 1.25
: = 3.1416 original v = 6.136 new v
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6.136 - 3.1416 = 2.99; vol increase
: = .9531 * 100 = 95.31 % increase in volume
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