A sphere is inscribed in a cone with height 4 and base radius 3. What is the ratio of the volume of the sphere to the volume of the cone?
Here's the cross-section pic :
The radius of the sphere 1.5 units
The volume of the cone is pi (3)^2 *4 / 3 units^3 = 12pi units^3
The volume of the sphere is (4/3)pi (1.5)^3 units^3 = 4.5 units^3
So ratio of the volume of the sphere to the cone is :
4.5 pi / 12 pi = 4.5 / 12 = (9/2) / (24/2) = 9 / 24 = 3 / 8