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Michelle is making cone-shaped trees of solid chocolate. Her trees will have a base with adiameter of 4 inches and the trees will be 7 inches high. How much chocolate will Michelleneed to make a solid chocolate tree?Round to the nearest hundredth.

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29.32in^3

Step-by-step explanation

To find how much chocolate Michelle needs, we have to find the volume of the cone-shaped tree.

The volume of a cone is:


V=(1)/(3)\cdot\pi\cdot r^2\cdot h

where r = radius; h = height

The diameter is 2 times the radius, which means that the radius of the base of the cone is half the diameter. That is:


\begin{gathered} r=(1)/(2)\cdot4 \\ r=2\text{ inches} \end{gathered}

Therefore, the volume of the cone-shaped tree is:


\begin{gathered} V=(1)/(3)\cdot\pi\cdot2^2\cdot7 \\ V=29.32in^3 \end{gathered}

That is the amount of chocolate that Michelle needs.

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