# Find Volume of Cone

• September 6th 2010, 11:34 AM
fdrhs1984
Find Volume of Cone
A cone of height 24cm has a curved surface area 550 cm2 . Find its volume.
• September 6th 2010, 11:56 AM
HallsofIvy
It is not too difficult to look up (perhaps on the internet, perhaps in a text) the formula for volume and curved area of a cone of base radius r and height h. The volume is given by $\frac{\pi}{3}r^2h$ and the area by $\pi r l$ where l is the "slant height", the distance from the vertex to the base measured along the curved surface. By the Pythagorean theorem, applied to the right triangle where the legs are the axis of the cone and a radius of the base and the hypotenuse is along the curved surface, $l= \sqrt{r^2+ h^2}$ so that we have $\pi r\sqrt{r^2+ h^2}= 550$.

We are told that the height, h, is 24 so we have $\pi r\sqrt}{r^2+ 24^2}= 550$. solve that for r and use $V= \frac{\pi}{3}r^2(24)$
• September 6th 2010, 01:08 PM
fdrhs1984
I can take it from here. Thank a lot!
• September 7th 2010, 09:15 AM
fdrhs1984
I got r = 0, r = 24i and r = -24i. I am stuck here. Can you find the value of r? I can then take it from there.