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Does pi/4(d^2) equal volume or area? OR neitheR?
Pengwuino said:It represents an area but what area? I don't know, certainly no readily identifiable geometric shape.
Zenaide said:[tex]
\frac{\pi}{4} d^2
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Okay That ^^^^^ is what I meant... I had a sheet of equations but I don't have it and I can't find the equation for what that series of things equal... and I was using d as a diameter for a water tank... SO I'm assuming the water tank is a cylnder. becuase it has a height and a diameter.
The equation for finding the volume of a cylinder is V = πr2h, where r is the radius and h is the height of the cylinder.
The formula for finding the area of a circle, A = πr2, is used to calculate the base of a cylinder, which is then multiplied by the height to find the volume.
Pi is divided by 4 because the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder only calculates the volume of one quarter of the cylinder, which is then multiplied by 4 to get the total volume.
The unit of measurement for volume is typically cubic units, such as cubic meters, cubic centimeters, or cubic inches.
No, the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder is specific to cylinders and cannot be used for other shapes. Different shapes have different formulas for finding their volume.