Volume of cones, spheres and pyramids
Calculate volume and surface area of cones, spheres, pyramids and frustums
What you'll learn
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Imagine a party hat 🎉 — that's a cone shape. Now picture a bouncy ball 🏀 — that's a sphere. And a pyramid like the ones in Egypt 🏛️.
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Which shape is like a party hat? 🎉
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Drag the slider to fill a cone with water 💧 — see how many cone-fulls fill a cylinder of the same height and base.
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Find the volume of a cone with base radius 3 cm and height 10 cm. Use π = 3.14.
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What is the volume of a cone with base area 12 cm² and height 9 cm?
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For a sphere 🏀, imagine filling it with tiny cubes. The formula is V = ⁴⁄₃ × π × r³ — that's 4/3 of π times the radius cubed.
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Find the volume of a sphere with radius 6 cm. Use π = 3.14.
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What is the volume of a sphere with radius 3 cm? (Use π = 3.14)
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