Maureen has two hollow containers. One is a 5 cm cube and the other is a cylinder of radius 2 cm. She completely fills the cube with water and then pours it into the cylinder.

What is the depth of the water in the cylinder? Give your answer in cm correct to 3 significant figures.

You can assume that the cylinder is tall enough to hold all the water from the cube.

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Karla Strong

15 February, 06:40

Maureen has two hollow containers. One is a 5 cm cube and the other is a cylinder of radius 2 cm. She completely fills the cube with water and then pours it into the cylinder.

What is the depth of the water in the cylinder? Give your answer in cm correct to 3 significant figures.

You can assume that the cylinder is tall enough to hold all the water from the cube.

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Joy Maddox · Answer 1

it's 9.947

Step-by-step explanation:

for this we need an equation which contain height in it so we used volume in both so we get height

π2^2h=5*5*5

π4h=125

h=9.947