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Integrated math 2
Course: Integrated math 2 > Unit 10
Lesson 3: Volume and surface areaVolume of composite figures
It's time to mix and match! Now that we can find volume in several basic shapes, let's combine them to see how we model more interesting and useful real figures.
Composite volume
It's time to mix and match! Now that we can find volume in several basic shapes, let's combine them to see how we model more interesting and useful real figures.
Subtracting to find volume
A cylinder has been drilled out of this block to allow a rod to pass through. All measurements are in millimeters. Let's find the remaining volume of the block.
Subdividing the figure
The figures is composed of a rectangular prism with a cylinder removed from it.
Finding the separate volumes
Subtracting to find the total volume
Adding to find volume
Let's consider the volume of a tent with the following dimensions. All measurements are in meters. The base of the tent is a rectangle.
Subdividing the figure
It looks a little like a triangular prism, but it sticks out too far at the bottom. We can split this figure into the triangular prism and two halves of a pyramid.
Calculating separate volumes
Adding to find the total volume
Challenge problem
A sharpened pencil is shaped like a right circular cone attached to a cylinder, each with the same radius. The pencil, including the point, is long, and the unsharpened base has an area of of . The volume of the pencil is .
We're going to solve for the length of the sharpened part of the pencil.
Expressing the volumes in terms of the unknown
Solving for the unknown
Now we can set your expression for the volume of the pencil equal to the numeric volume, and solve for .
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- i am so lost and confused(15 votes)
- this fr makes no since(11 votes)
- A company makes spherical tanks that store chemicals. Their standard model has a diameter of 666 meters, but a customer needs a larger tank whose capacity is 2.52.52, point, 5 times the volume of the standard model.
What is the approximate diameter of this larger tank?(0 votes)- So you have a sphere with a diameter of 6, and you want to find the diameter of a sphere that has a volume 2.5 times as greater. The least mentally taxing way to do this is the calculate the volume of the first sphere, then multiply by 2.5, and then apply the formula in reverse to find the radius and then diameter of the second sphere.
d = 2r, so the radius of the first sphere is 3m
V = 4/3 * pi * r^3
V = 4/3 * pi * (3 * 3 * 3)
V = 36pi
Now to get the volume of the tank that is 2.5 times as large, multiply by 2.5 and get 90pi m^3
V = 4/3 * pi * r^3
r = cbrt( V / (4/3 * pi))
r = 4.07
Multiply by 2 to get a new diameter of 8.14 meters.
If you realize that if you change the radius by a certain factor, the Volume changes by the factor cubed. So, since you're changing the volume by 2.5, you basically change the radius by cbrt(2.5).
3 * cbrt(2.5) will give you the new radius then.(19 votes)
- it's hard in some parts(7 votes)
- Why can't I say that the volume of the cylinder is the volume of the entire pencil minus the volume of the cone? volume of cylinder + volume of cone = volume of pencil
--> volume of cylinder = volume of pencil - volume of cone
--> volume of cyliner = 7040 - 40p / 3(4 votes)- You can. The way you posed is just a re-formatted version of the solution they offered. (i.e they offered [V(cyl)+V(cone)=V(pen)], and you just subtracted V(cone) from both sides. Either way, you'd get the same answer.(4 votes)
- I did the problems but I can't seem to understand why and how I got some of the answers.
I do better with the videos. :|
It's frustrating. >:((3 votes) - I like how some people on here are just copy-pasting math assignment/test questions.(3 votes)
- What is the volume of the rectangular prism?(2 votes)
- Any prism is V = Bh, where B is area of base and h is height. Since a rectangle area is bh or lw, a rectangular prism is V=lwh.(2 votes)
- Wesley makes spherical fish tanks with a diameter of 30\text{ cm}30 cm30, start text, space, c, m, end text. A customer requests a smaller tank with half the volume of the tank that Wesley usually makes.(2 votes)
- I didn't read instructions and assumed I will calculate volume lol.
First I found volume of the cone,
cone volume = 1/3 of cylinder volume of the cone is described in = (190mm*40mm^2 - 7040mm^3)/2,
then used it in equation to find p
280mm^3 = 40mm^2*p mm /3.(1 vote)