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A design for a laver cake is shown. A large bottom layer will be added following the samepattern. Find the volume of the four layer cake.

A design for a laver cake is shown. A large bottom layer will be added following the-example-1
User Skeptic
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Looking at the image, we can see that the radius of each layer is double the radius of the previous layer.

If the third layer has a radius of 8 inches, the next layer will have a radius of 16 inches.

Now, to calculate the volume, we can use the formula below:


\begin{gathered} V=\pi r^2h\\ \\ V=3.1416\cdot16^2\cdot4\\ \\ V=3217\text{ in^^b3} \end{gathered}

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