SOLUTION: Find the volume of a cone with area of the base 100 and height 6.

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Question 467609: Find the volume of a cone with area of the base 100 and height 6.
Answer by gwendolyn(128) About Me  (Show Source):
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The volume of a cone is one third times the area of the base times the height of the cone, or:
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If we substitute in 100 for b and 6 for h, we get:
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When we do the multiplication, we see that the volume of the cone is 200.