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Basic geometry and measurement

Course: Basic geometry and measurement > Unit 10

Lesson 3: Volume of cylinders, spheres, and cones
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Basic geometry and measurement
Circles, cylinders, cones, and spheres
Volume of cylinders, spheres, and cones
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Volume of cylinders, spheres, and cones word problems

CCSS.Math: 8.G.C.9
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Problem

Jackson buys a grape snow cone on a hot day. By the time he eats all the "snow" off the top, the paper cone is filled with 27, pi cmcubed of melted purple liquid. The radius of the cone is 3 cm.
What is the height of the cone?
Either enter an exact answer in terms of pi or use 3, point, 14 for pi.
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 6
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3, slash, 5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7, slash, 4
  • a mixed number, like 1, space, 3, slash, 4
  • an exact decimal, like 0, point, 75
  • a multiple of pi, like 12, space, start text, p, i, end text or 2, slash, 3, space, start text, p, i, end text
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