Question

Jessica bought the ingredients to make chicken soup, and wanted to make a double batch, which would be 18 cups of soup. A quick Google search told her that this was 259.9 cubic inches. She hoped the soup pot below would be big enough. The soup pot is 9 inches tall with a radius of 3.5 inches. What is the volume of the soup pot? Answer choices are rounded to the nearest tenth cubic inch. 169.6 cubic inches 890.6 cubic inches 197.9 cubic inches 346.4 cubic inches

Answer 1

Answer: 346.4 in^3

Step-by-step explanation:

The pot can be thinked as a cylinder:

The volume of a cylinder is equal to:

V = (pi*r^2)*h

where h is the height, r is the radius and pi = 3.1416

Here we have that: r = 3.5in, h = 9in.

Then the volume is:

V = 3.1416*(3.5in)^2*9in = 346.4in^3