How to find the volume of a cylinder in pre-algebra - Math

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What is the radius of a cylinder with a volume of and a height of ?

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When you think of volume, think of it as a stack of something. A cube is a stack of squares. A cylinder is a stack of circles. That means that the volume of a cylinder will be the area of that circle times the height, or .

Plug in our given values to solve:

Divide both sides by .

Divide both sides by .

Take the square root of both sides:

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