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Can someone please just give me a formula for solving this? Thank you.

When baking a cake, you have a choice of the following pans: a round cake pan that is 2 inches deep and has a 7 inch diameter.

a 6 inch x9 inch rectangular cake pan that is 2 inches deep.

A. which of these pans has the larger value? Justify your answer

User Ian Hunter
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Since you're looking for the volume of each...

Circle: you want to find the area (πr^2) times height

Rectangle: l×w×h

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