When baking a cake, you have a choice of the following pans:

a round cake pan that is 2 inches deep and has a 7 inch diameter
a 6 inch × 9 inch rectangular cake pan that is 2 inches deep
a. Which of these pans has the larger volume? Justify your answer.
b. Excluding the bottom of the cake, what is the surface area of each cake that will be covered by frosting? Justify your answer.

Question

When baking a cake, you have a choice of the following pans: 

          a round cake pan that is 2 inches deep and has a 7 inch diameter 
          a 6 inch × 9 inch rectangular cake pan that is 2 inches deep 
a. Which of these pans has the larger volume? Justify your answer. 
b. Excluding the bottom of the cake, what is the surface area of each cake that will be covered by frosting? Justify your answer.

anonymous · Answer

A. round pan= 76.97
rectangle=108 justify by showing the formulas for a cylinder and rectangular prism

anonymous · Answer

Thanks!

anonymous · Answer

excluding basically means that you dont use the bottom of the cake when doing this. but u want to do surface area formulas and subtract the bottom. hope i helped a bit!

anonymous · Answer

thanks!