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Geometry: Volumes of Cylinders, cones and Spheres
Finding the Volume of a Cone
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Introduction
Cone-shaped objects appear in everyday life, such as paper cones and funnels. Their volume tells us how much space is inside them. The volume can be calculated when the ra...
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Transcript
Ray is working on a school project with his friend. They have a cone-shaped container with a radius of 3 inches and a height of 8 inches. They wonder what the volume of the container is.
Ray begins by writing the volume formula for a cone, V = ⅓πr²h. He then substitutes the known values into the formula and simplifies 32 to 9. ...
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