Question

A storage tank holds 235,500 in3 of a chemical. The chemical is dispensed to completely fill 25 identical cylindrical containers, each with a radius of 5 in. What is the height of the cylindrical containers? Use 3.14 to approximate pi.

Answer 1

Now the volume for each identical cylindrical container is obviously 1/25 since it says, "The chemical is dispensed to completely fill 25 identical cylindrical containers”. Right?

So this is the \(V\) for one of these cylinders.

Now when it says “each with a radius of 5 in”, this is obviously the r.

Now you have all the variables you need to solve this.

Use this equation: \(V = \pi * r^2 * h\)

You know all the variables, so now solve for \(h\).