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Volume of cylinders, spheres, and cones word problems

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 27π cm3 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 π or use 3.14 for π.
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 6
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3/5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7/4
  • a mixed number, like 1 3/4
  • an exact decimal, like 0.75
  • a multiple of pi, like 12 pi or 2/3 pi
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