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Calculate the height of each solid. Round your answers to the nearest tenth if needed.
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Here are several solids.
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The building on the left side of the picture is called the Cayan Tower. It’s in the city of Dubai. The tower is about 306 meters tall. It’s made up of identical floors that are each rotated slightly compared to the one underneath it.
floor plan
Each floor is the same chevron shape that is approximately 2 parallelograms put together, with the dimensions shown in the image. The circle in the floor plan shows the cross-section of the core, which is used to circulate air and carry pipes and wiring throughout the building.
The formula , where stands for volume, is the area of the base, and is the height, applies to right and oblique cylinders and all prisms. Sometimes, though, additional calculations are needed to find missing measurements before the formula can be applied.
To calculate the volume of this cylinder, first find the area of the base, which is a circle of radius 5 cm. Its area is square centimeters. The cylinder’s height isn’t given. To find the value of the height, notice that a right triangle is formed by the 15-centimeter diagonal line, the 10-centimeter diameter of the circle, and the height of the cylinder. The diagonal line is the triangle’s hypotenuse. By the Pythagorean Theorem, . That means . Subtracting 100 from each side gives , so is centimeters.
The volume of the cylinder is the area of the base multiplied by the height. This is cubic centimeters, or approximately 878.1 cubic centimeters.