Question

A restaurant stores flour, rice, and sugar in three different cylindrical containers

1. What is the approximate volume of the sugar container? Show your work.

(2 points)












2. What is the approximate height of the rice container? Show your work. (2 points)












3. Compare the heights of the sugar container and the rice container. Next, compare their volumes. How many times as large is the volume of the rice container compared to the volume of the sugar container? Explain your answer. (2 points)

















4. In the formula V = Bh, B is the area of the base. Use this formula to calculate the volume of the flour container. (2 points)












5. Compare the volumes of the containers. Which container has the greatest volume? Which has the smallest volume? (2 points)

Answer 1

1. 157.08

2. 12.00

3. 1:1.5, 1.5 times as much

4. 50.24

5. Largest: Rice, Smallest: Flour

Explanation:

1. (2.5^2)*pi*8

2. 235/((2.5^2)*pi)

3. Height of sugar: 8, Height of rice: 12, Volume of sugar: 157.08, Volume of rice: 235.5

4. B*H = 12.56*4

5. Sugar volume is 157.08, rice volume is 235.5, flour volume is 50.24