Question

4. Paolo is filling a cylindrical water bottle. Unfortunately it is too big to fit in the sink he is filling up at so he has to use cone cups to fill up the bigger water bottle. The cone cups have a radius of 1 in, and a height of 3 in. how many cone cups would it take to fill the cylindrical water bottle?​

Answer 1

The answer is below

Explanation:

The question is not complete, we need to be given the dimensions of the big cylindrical water bottle. Let us assume, that the big bottles has a dimension of radius 3 in and height 5 in.

Solution:

Firstly, we need to find the volume of the big cylindrical bottle, then we find the volume of the small cone.

Volume of the cylindrical bottle = πr²h = π(3²)5 = 45π in³

Volume of the small cone = πr²h/3 = π(1²)(3/3) = π in³

Therefore the number if cups required to fill the water bottle is the ratio of the volume of the cylinder to the volume of the small cone. Hence:

number of cone cups = 45π in³ / π in³ = 45 cups

Hence 45 cups of the cone would be needed to fill the cylindrical bottle