Question

A soup company uses a cylindrical can for their soup with a radius of 5 cm. If the volume of the can is 250π cm3, what is the height of the can? Explain how you determined the answer.

Answer 1

Recall the formula for the volume of a cylinder: $V=\pi\cdot r^2h$
We can plug in what we know to get $250\pi=\pi\cdot 5^2h$
This is easy to solve: divide by $\pi\cdot 5^2$ to get $10=h$.

The height of the can is 10cm.