The area of this cylinder's base is one hundred fifty square inches. The height of the cylinder is 6 inches. What is the volume of the cone that has the same base area and height? Show the steps of your solution and explain your work.

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anonymous · Answer

can you see if my answer is right?

triciaal · Answer

What is the formula for the volume of the cone?
plug the information you are given

triciaal · Answer

what do you have?

anonymous · Answer

We do the formula -> V = π r2h.  1/3 x 150 x 6. since 6 is a multiple of 3 in 1/3 we cross out 3 and 6. 6 divided by 3 is 2. so we have 150 x 2 = 300. :)

triciaal · Answer

checking the formula

triciaal · Answer

volume of cylinder = what you wrote
volume of cone what you calculated

anonymous · Answer

ok thanks! ^-^

triciaal · Answer

what about the explanation