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for a classroom party, there are 12 bottles of fruit punch. each bottle is filled with 850 cubic centimeters of punch. the fruit punch will be served in a cone shaped paper cups that are 7 centimeters across and 12 centimeters tall.

 

How many completely full cone shaped cups of the punch can be poured?

 

A. 16

B. 66

C. 232 

D. 265

 

explain how you got your answer

 Apr 20, 2017
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Total volume of punch  =  12 * 850  =  10200 cm^3   (1)

 

Volume of one cup  =  (1/3) * pi * (7/2) * 12 cm^3    (2)

 

Cups required  =   (1) / (2)   =

 

10200 / [ (1/3) * pi * (7/2) * 12 ]   =  about   66 cups   [ actually you need 67 ]

 

 

 

cool cool cool

 Apr 20, 2017

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