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bbg5000
Mar31-04, 10:19 PM
I know how to find volume using diameter, but how do you find diameter using volume????

cookiemonster
Mar31-04, 10:32 PM
The volume of what? A sphere? A cylinder? A cone?

cookiemonster

bbg5000
Mar31-04, 11:03 PM
..whoops...yeah, a sphere. How do you find the diameter of a sphere using the volume?

cookiemonster
Mar31-04, 11:29 PM
V = \frac{4}{3}\pi \Big(\frac{d}{2}\Big)^3

That's the formula for the volume of a sphere in terms of the diameter. Now just solve for d!

d = \sqrt[3]{\frac{6V}{\pi}}

cookiemonster

Janitor
Mar31-04, 11:31 PM
Cookiemonster probably meant to cube his radius, not to square it, and thus also to use a cube root, not a square root. This would change his final formula slightly.

cookiemonster
Mar31-04, 11:33 PM
Hah, hah, hah... Did I do that?

cookiemonster

bbg5000
Mar31-04, 11:40 PM
Thanks for the help cookiemonster...

cookiemonster
Mar31-04, 11:49 PM
Gah... Minor details.

cookiemonster