Question

A stone is placed in a 5 cm diameter graduated cylinder, causing the water level in the cylinder to rise 2.7 cm. What is the volume of the stone?

Answer 1

\[Pir ^{2}h\]

Answer 2

this is the equation for the volume of a cylinder, plug in the numbers and it will provide the information you are seeking.

Answer 3

Is 52.98 cm^3 or 16Pi cm^3 the volume of the rock?

Answer 4

I would round up to 52.99, but I think that's it. 16Pi probably isn't close enough?

Answer 5

There is a pretty nice website that provides a lot of volume formulas, have you ever googled for this information?