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A cylinder can contains lemonade, shown shaded on the diagram in which XY is diameter. What fraction of the volume of the can is filled with lemonade:
just below a quarter; just over a quarter; exactly a quarter?
If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.
The builders have dug a hole in the ground to be filled with concrete for the foundations of our garage. How many cubic metres of ready-mix concrete should the builders order to fill this hole to make the concrete raft for the foundations?
What is the volume of the solid formed by rotating this right angled triangle about the hypotenuse?