Question

The lateral surface area of the wrapper for an ice cream cone is 47.1 cm squared.If the lateral height of the ice cream cone is 6cm,what would be the radius of the ice cream cone?

Answer 1

To determine the radius of the cone, we make use of the lateral surface area of the cone. The lateral surface of an object is the area of all the sides of a certain object. For a cone, it is the product of pi, the radius and the slant height (lateral height). We calculate as follows:
Lateral Surface Area = πrh
47.1 = πr(6)
r = 2.5 cm