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Given a soda can with a volume of 15 and a diameter of 2, what is the volume of a cone that fits perfectly inside the soda can?

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The volume of a cone is 1/3 the volume of a cylinder that perfectly encloses it.

So, the volume of a cone that fits perfectly inside the can is 15/3 = 5.
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