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How Do You Find the Volume of a Cone?
The formula to find the volume of a cone is volume equals one-third times the base times the height. The base can be found by using the formula to find the area of a circle: base equals pi times radius squared. So it seems that the area...
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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 Slant Height of a Cone?
Use the Pythagorean theorem formula to find the slant height of a cone. If the height of the cone and the radius of the base are given, using the Pythagorean theorem formula will be a piece of cake. Just plug in the values given and solve.
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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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What is the Formula for the Area of a Trapezoid?
Make a parallelogram out of two trapezoids to find the area of one trapezoid? Sounds pretty complicated. Well, it's not complicated but there are a lot of steps. The instructor does a pretty good job of diagramming and explaining just...
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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 Circle?
Cut up a circle and make a parallelogram! What? No way! Yes way! Watch the instructor illustrate just how to cut up the circle and get that parallelogram to then get the formula for the area of a circle. It really works! Base,...
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How Do You Find the Volume of a Box Whose Sides are Monomials?
Length times width times height. Yes, the formula for the volume of a rectangular shape. But the values are monomials. Use the knowledge you have to multiply the monomials and then write it in simplest form.
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How Do You Solve a Problem Using an Angle of Elevation?
One given angle and one given length equals an unknown height. What? Here's a word problem that can be solved given two pieces of information by using the correct formula. Watch the instructor explain how to use the tangent ratio formula...