help with volume measurement
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help with volume measurement
I usually do pretty good figuring volumes of containers, but most of the time the containers are pretty big. This one I'm having a little difficulty with.
I have a cylinder that is 5" in diameter and 20" in length. I need to know how many gallons it will hold.
I did the 3.14 X the radius squared X height = volume formula, but keep coming up with 21 gallons! Maybe somehow I'm messing up the decimal point and it should be 2.1 gallons, but for the life of me I can't get it right. I think my errors are because I'm dealing with fractions of a foot instead of whole feet.
Thanks for the help!
chaikwa.
I have a cylinder that is 5" in diameter and 20" in length. I need to know how many gallons it will hold.
I did the 3.14 X the radius squared X height = volume formula, but keep coming up with 21 gallons! Maybe somehow I'm messing up the decimal point and it should be 2.1 gallons, but for the life of me I can't get it right. I think my errors are because I'm dealing with fractions of a foot instead of whole feet.
Thanks for the help!
chaikwa.
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