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What is the Formula for the Volume of a Cylinder?
Finding the volume of a cylinder entails using two formulas: the formula for the area of a circle and the formula for volume. The area of the given circle must be solved because that value is used in the formula for volume. Watch this...
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How Do You Find the Volume of a Sphere?
The formula for the volume of a sphere is volume equals four-thirds pi times the radius cubed. That's a mouth-full. But if you are given the radius value of the sphere, all you have to do is plug it in and do the arithmetic. Just...
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How Do You Find the Volume of a Cylinder?
What is the formula to find the volume of a cylinder? Here's the formula - volume equals base times height, and the base of a cylinder is base equals pi times radius squared. If the is a given value for radius, and a given value for...
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How Do You Find the Surface Area of a Sphere?
What do a basketball, a bowling ball, and a ping pong ball all have in common? They are spheres. So how do you measure the surface area of a sphere? Yes, there is a formula and all you have to do is know one measurement of the sphere to...
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What is Circumference?
There are actually two formulas to find the circumference of a circle. One formula is based on knowing the diameter of the circle, and the other is based on knowing the radius of the circle. The instructor illustrates both formulas. She...
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How Do You Find the Circumference of a Circle if You Know the Diameter?
There are two formulas that can be used to find the circumference of a circle. Choose the appropriate formula depending on the given value in the problem. After selecting the correct formula, solve the problem using 3.14 as an estimation...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Circle if You Know the Radius?
There are basically two things you need to know to find the area of a circle. First, you need to use the correct formula. Second, you have to know the value of the radius. If you know these two things then all you have to do is plug the...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Circle if You Know the Diameter?
Do you know the formula to find the area of a circle? Do you know the value of pi? Do you know what the relationship is between diameter and radius? Yes? Then you can solve this problem. If your scholars don't know this formula then this...
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What is the Formula for the Area of a Circle?
Cut up a circle and make a parallelogram! What? No way! Yes way! Watch the instructor illustrate just how to cut up the circle and get that parallelogram to then get the formula for the area of a circle. It really works! Base,...
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Circumference by Math Busters
The Math Buster goes out and demonstrates a real life example of calculating circumference by walking around the edge of a circle, and compares it to walking from the edge of the circle to the center point. It is a visual demonstration,...