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geometry junior

Problem

A water tank in the shape of a right circular cylinder has a base radius of meters and a volume of cubic meters. What is the number of meters in the height of the tank?
Solution
Let the height measure meters. By the formula for the area of a cylinder, which states that where denote volume, radius and height respectively, we have Solving yields meters.
Final answer
3