SOLUTION: The Bausch Company produces cylindrical water tanks. If the height of a water tank is reduced from 10 feet to 5 feet and the radius is doubled, what will happen to the volume of th

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Question 778397: The Bausch Company produces cylindrical water tanks. If the height of a water tank is reduced from 10 feet to 5 feet and the radius is doubled, what will happen to the volume of the water tank?
The volume is reduced to one half of the original.
The volume remains the same.
The volume is reduced to one fourth of the original.
The volume doubles.

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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The height is cut in half, but the radius is doubled. So this balances out (since 1/2 times 2 = 1) so to speak, which doesn't change the volume at all. So The volume remains the same.