Rate water has to be added to Leaking cone

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Water is leaking out of an inverted conical tank at a rate of 6500 cm3/min at the same time that water is being pumped into the tank at a constant rate. The tank has height 6 m and the diameter at the top is 4 m. If the water level is rising at a rate of 20 cm/min when the height of the water is 2 m, find the rate at which water is being pumped into the tank.

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V=1/3 pi(r)^2*h

relationships:

4/2r=6/h
therefore,
r=1/3h


Substituting h for r:
V=1/3 pi (1/3h)^2(h)
V=pi/27(h)^3
V'=dv/dt= pi/27 (3h)^2dh/dt
dv/dt=pi/27 (3*200)^2(20)

since the cone is leaking we have to find:

dv/dt-6500=pi/27(3*200)^2(20)
 
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Others may want to confirm, but this looks good to me.
 
That answer is incorrect..that is why I posted it...I can't find the correct answer..I was just showing my work so someone could tell me where I went wrong...Does anyone know??

...I got it..I shouldn't have the parenthesis around the 3*200, since only the 200 is squared...
 
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Yes, that's right. Sorry I missed the error before. A tip for next time: if you know your answer is wrong, let us know and we (or at least I) will look more carefully for an error.
 
Thank you..and I will do that.
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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