Thread: Quadratic Problem/Frustrum of a cone

Hi Everyone,

Can someone have a look at the attachment and let me know where I am going wrong?

Thanks....Mark

Hello Mark

Originally Posted by manich44

Hi Everyone,

Can someone have a look at the attachment and let me know where I am going wrong?

Thanks....Mark

I can't see anything wrong at all.

Obviously, you haven't shown us the complete question, but if you want the value of that gives the volume of the frustum to be , it looks OK to me. The positive root of your quadratic , and this value of gives the volume to be - the slight error being due to the approximation , where would have been better.

Is this not the correct answer, then?

Grandad

Sorry the complete question is....change the size of the upper radius "r" (without any changes to "h" height, and "R" lower Radius) to make the weight of this concrete pile to be at least 8300kg (density of used concrete = 2400kg/m3)
Calculate the new upper Radius r

r=55cm R=1.2m h=104cm

Thanks....

Originally Posted by manich44

Sorry the complete question is....change the size of the upper radius "r" (without any changes to "h" height, and "R" lower Radius) to make the weight of this concrete pile to be at least 8300kg (density of used concrete = 2400kg/m3)
Calculate the new upper Radius r

r=55cm R=1.2m h=104cm

Thanks....

OK, I got that much. And that gives the volume as you said. So where is the problem? Do you have a different answer for ? If so, I suspect the answer you have may be wrong!

Grandad