Homework Help: Geometry

Posted by Sarah on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 12:42pm.

Infinitely many different sectors can be cut from a circular piece of paper with a 12-cm radius, and any such sector can be fashioned into a paper cone with a 12-cm slant height.
(a) Show that the volume of the cone produced by the 180-degree sector is larger than the volume of the cone produced by the 120-degree sector.
(b) Find a sector of the same circle that will produce a cone whose volume is even larger.
(c) Express the volume of a cone formed from this circle as a function of the central angle of the sector used to form it, then find the sector that produces the cone of greatest volume.

Geometry - Ms. Sue, Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 12:45pm
Reiny answered this for you a couple of days ago.

http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1271347261

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