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Frustum of a cone The shape of the first spacecraft in the Apollo program was a frustum of a right circular cone-a solid formed by truncating a cone by a plane parallel to its base. For the frustum shown in the figure, the radii
Exercise 83
(a) Use similar
(b) Derive a formula for the volume of the frustum as a function of
(c) If
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