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A company makes cones out of solid foam. Each cone has a height of 9 inches, and its base has a diameter of 5 inches. How much foam is needed to make 120 cones?

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Answer: 2250 pi

Step to do:

where is the volume of the cone, is the radius of the base, and is the height of the cone.

In the given problem, we know that and . Using this, we can find the volume of a single cone:

Since the problem asks how much foam is needed to make 120 cones, we can multiply this result to get our answer:

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