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Kelly and Adam are buying boxes filled with candy to give to friends. Kelly chooses a cone-shaped box that has radius x. Adam chooses a box in the shape of a square pyramid, with the same height as Kelly's box and a side length of xπ√. Adam states that the volumes of the two boxes are the same. Kelly disagrees. Which statement is true?

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Kelly and Adam are buying candy boxes to give to friends

Explanation:

Kelly statement is true.

1. Kelly buy a candy box which is cone -shaped with radius x.

2.Adam buy a candy box which is square pyramid shape with same height as Kelly's box but the side length is xπ√.

3.Two candy boxes have different in shape so volumes of the boxes will be different.

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