High School Math : Pre-Algebra

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for High School Math

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Example Questions

Example Question #5 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When you think of volume, think of it as a stack of something. A cube is a stack of squares. A cylinder is a stack of circles. That means that the volume of a cylinder will be the area of that circle times the height, or .

Plug in our given values to solve:

Example Question #2 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When you think of volume, think of it as a stack of something. A cube is a stack of squares. A cylinder is a stack of circles. That means that the volume of a cylinder will be the area of that circle times the height, or .

Plug in our given values to solve:

Example Question #7 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the radius of a cylinder with a volume of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When you think of volume, think of it as a stack of something. A cube is a stack of squares. A cylinder is a stack of circles. That means that the volume of a cylinder will be the area of that circle times the height, or .

Plug in our given values to solve:

Divide both sides by .

Divide both sides by .

Take the square root of both sides:

Example Question #8 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When thinking about volume, think of it as a stack of something. In this case, a cylinder is a stack of circles. We want the area of the bottom circle times the height, or .

Plug in our given information and solve:

Example Question #9 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When thinking about volume, think of it as a stack of something. In this case, a cylinder is a stack of circles. We want the area of the bottom circle times the height, or .

Plug in and solve:

Example Question #10 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When thinking about volume, think of it as a stack of something. In this case, a cylinder is a stack of circles. We want the area of the bottom circle times the height, or .

Plug in and solve:

Example Question #801 : High School Math

What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The formula for the volume of a cylinder is the area of the base circle times the height, or .

Plug in our given info to solve.

Example Question #11 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cylinder with a circle radius of  and a length of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the volume of a cylinder we must know the equation for the volume of a cylinder, which is .

In this example, the length is  and the radius is , so our equation will look like this: 

We then square the  to get .

Then perform multiplication to get .

Example Question #11 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cylinder with a circular side with a radius of  and a length of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the volume of a cylinder we must know the equation for the volume of a cylinder which is

In this example the length is  and the radius is  so our equation will look like this 

We then square the  to get 

Then perform multiplication to get .

Example Question #14 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder In Pre Algebra

What is the volume of a cone with a circle radius of  and a height of ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the volume of a cone we must use the equation

We must first solve for the area of the circle using .

The equation for the area of a circle is

We plug in  and square it to get 

We then plug our answer into the equation for the cone with  to get 

We multiply to get our final answer for the volume of the cone

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