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Volume of Cylinders, Cones, and Spheres Practice: Directions

This document provides examples of calculating the volumes of cylinders, cones, and spheres. It gives the formulas for calculating each and works through 5 example problems, showing the work and solutions. The volumes calculated include a cone, sphere, ice cream cone with half sphere topping, and a silo shaped like a cylinder with a half sphere on top.

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Volume of Cylinders, Cones, and Spheres Practice: Directions

This document provides examples of calculating the volumes of cylinders, cones, and spheres. It gives the formulas for calculating each and works through 5 example problems, showing the work and solutions. The volumes calculated include a cone, sphere, ice cream cone with half sphere topping, and a silo shaped like a cylinder with a half sphere on top.

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Volume of Cylinders, Cones, and Spheres Practice KEY

Directions: For each of the following problems, find the volume of the three-dimensional figures. Leave your
answer in exact form in terms of pi (). Show all your work!

1.   
2.   
3.   . 

   ∙  ∙ ℎ  ∙  ∙ ℎ 4 ∙  ∙ 
  
   ∙ 5 ∙ 11 3 3
   ∙ 25 ∙ 11  ∙ 3 ∙ 11 4 ∙  ∙ 1.5
  
3 3
 ∙ 9 ∙ 11 4 ∙  ∙ 3.375
  
3 3
 ∙ 99  ∙ 13.5
  
3 3
4. Esther gets her favorite ice cream in a cone. The cone is filled to the top and has a radius of 4 cm and a
height of 8 cm. On top of the filled cone, she gets an additional half-sphere of ice cream. What is the
volume of the ice-cream?
cone: half-sphere:
 ∙ 4 ∙ 8 1 4 ∙  ∙ 4
   
total volume:
3 2 3 2 2
 ∙ 16 ∙ 8   42  ! 42 
1 4 ∙  ∙ 64 3 3
  
3 2 3 #
 ∙ 128   "  $
%& '$( $)(*

 1  ∙ 256
3  
2 3
2 2
  42    42 
3 3
5. A farmer stores corn in a silo that in the shape of cylinder with a half-sphere on top. The diameter of the
silo is 30 feet, and the total height of the silo is 60 feet. Find the total volume of the silo.
cylinder: half-sphere:
   ∙ 15 ∙ 45 1 4 ∙  ∙ 15
  
total volume:
   ∙ 225 ∙ 45 2 3   10125 ! 2250
  10125 1 4 ∙  ∙ 3375   #  &,
 
2 3
1  ∙ 13500
 
2 3
  2250

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