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How Do You Find the Volume of a Sphere?
The formula for the volume of a sphere is volume equals four-thirds pi times the radius cubed. That's a mouth-full. But if you are given the radius value of the sphere, all you have to do is plug it in and do the arithmetic. Just...
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How Do You Find the Lateral and Surface Areas of a Triangular Prism?
There are several pieces to this problem. But luckily all the necessary pieces are here. There are five variables and three different formulas to use to get the solutions. The instructor diagrams the triangular prism and labels the...
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How Do You Find the Surface Area of a Sphere?
What do a basketball, a bowling ball, and a ping pong ball all have in common? They are spheres. So how do you measure the surface area of a sphere? Yes, there is a formula and all you have to do is know one measurement of the sphere to...
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How Do You Find the Lateral and Surface Areas of a Regular Pyramid?
A regular pyramid has four equal triangular shaped sides and a square base. The lateral area is comprised of the area of the four triangular sides. The surface area is the area of the four triangular sides plus the area of the base....
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How Do You Find the Lateral and Surface Areas of a Rectangular Prism?
What are lateral faces? How do you find the area of all the lateral faces? What to do with the perimeter of the base? Then what do you do with those values? You use it to help determine the total lateral area of a rectangle. Yes, more...
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How Do You Find the Lateral and Surface Areas of a Cylinder?
There are three formulas that need to be used to solve this problem. The formula for the lateral area of a cylinder, the formula for the circular base of the cylinder, and then the formula for the surface area. It seems like quite a bit,...
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How Do You Find the Width of a Rectangle if You Know its Length and Perimeter?
Use the formula for the perimeter of a rectangle to find the value of the width. Plug the given values of the perimeter and the length into the formula and solve. It is as easy as it looks.
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What is the Formula for the Area of a Triangle?
The teacher explains how the formula for a triangle was determined. It is related to a parallelogram. What? The formula for the area of a triangle is derived from the area of a parallelogram? Seeing is believing, so watch this video to...
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How Do You Find the Height of a Triangle if You Know the Area and Base?
Use the formula for the area of a triangle to find the height of the triangle. If the problem gives the value of the area and the value of the base, then the height can be found using the formula for the area of a triangle. The...
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How Do You Find the Height of a Trapezoid if You Know the Area and Bases?
Find the height of a trapezoid given the values of the two bases and the area. First write out the formula for the area of a trapezoid. Then identify all the variables and match up the given values. Now plug the values into the formula....
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How Do You Find the Base of a Parallelogram if You Know the Area and Height?
There are three variables in the formula for a parallelogram. Two of the values are given in this problem. Find the third value. Identify what each of the variables means. Match up the given values to the variables. Then solve for the...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Parallelogram?
So you are trying to tell me that a parallelogram is a rectangle in disguise? Wow! And I can use a similar formula of the area of a rectangle to find the area of a parallelogram? Wow! Ok, show me how! A=bh. So simple really.
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What is the Formula for the Area of a Sector of a Circle?
Are you looking for the formula for the area of a sector of a circle? But what's a sector? A sector is just a fraction of the area of a circle. Follow the instructor as she illustrates and labels the different parts of a circle. She also...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Circle if You Know the Radius?
There are basically two things you need to know to find the area of a circle. First, you need to use the correct formula. Second, you have to know the value of the radius. If you know these two things then all you have to do is plug the...
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How Do You Figure Out the Price of a Marked Up Item?
Inflation and higher fuel costs means airplane tickets will cost more to the consumer. So here is a word problem that presents a real-world situation. Figure out the total price for an airplane ticket that has increased by 30% from the...
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How Do You Figure Out the Time Traveled if You Know Distance and Speed?
Yes, it's a word problem, but you know the formula for distance, d=rt. The word problem here gives you two values so all you have to do is plug them into the correct place and solve. Don't forget to use the division property of equality...
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How Do You Find a Missing Angle in a Quadrilateral?
Oh no, there is a missing angle in a quadrilateral. Where did it go? It didn't go anywhere, it's just missing the value of the angle. So how do you find that missing value? Use a formula of course. Everything in algebra uses a formula....
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How Do You Find a Missing Side of a Right Triangle Using Sine?
What's a trigonometric ratio? It is a ratio between two sides of a right triangle. In this problem, find sin(A) in the given right triangle. Use the ratio of the opposite side divided by the hypotenuse to find sin(A). The instructor...
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How Do You Find the Midpoint Between Two Coordinates?
You've been given two coordinate points on a graph. When these points are connected they form a line segment. Now you have to find the midpoint of this line. Of course there is a formula and all you have to do is plug in the coordinate...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Rectangle Whose Sides are Binomials?
The teacher uses a diagram to set up her initial equation to reflect the changes being made to a garden plot. She has a good explanation of how she got her equation. Then she works through the steps to solve the equation.
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How Do You Solve an Opposite-Direction Travel Problem?
The quintessential word problem that makes everyone scream and run away. But wait, come back! Time, distance, when will they get there? You are really only working with one formula: distance= rate times time. You can do this. View this...
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What's the Formula for Slope?
Slope? Does that mean the angle of the line on the graph? Yes, but it's not referred to as an angle on the graph. The slope of the line means how much does the line move up or down in comparison as to how much it moves left or right. So,...
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What's Point-Slope Form of a Linear Equation?
Show your class what the point-slope form or a linear equation looks like and how to find it with this video. An instructor defines point-slope form and proceeds to work through an example. Great for in-class or at-home use.
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How Do You Write an Equation of a Line in Point-Slope Form and Standard Form If You Have Two Points?
There are a lot of steps in this problem. But just like walking up a flight of stairs, you should take one step at a time, so too in the solving of this problem. The instructor explains each step and what to do to move to the next one.