"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:...
> "Andrew Walsh nomail" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >
> > How do you calculate the displacement of a cylinder 22 inches long with
a
> > circumference of 12.5 inches.
>
> First find the radius of the base with:
>
> diameter = circumference/?
>
> Then divide the diameter by 2 to get the radius, then plug in below
>
> Then use the area of the base (? r2 ) times the height of the cylinder to
> get the volume:
>
> V = (? r2) (h)
Sorry ... my characters screwed up: ? is "pi" ... (use 3.14 for pi and
you'll be close enough).
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