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If you know that the Volume of a Cone is (1/3rd) the Volume of a Right Circular Cylinder, then you know what this question is basically testing.


Volume of any right circular cone with same height and same radius = (1/3) (Volume of corresponding cylinder)

The cone takes up (1/3)V inside the cylinder

Thus: V - (1/3)V = (2/3)V remains inside the cylinder to be filled with water

2V/3

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I think you guys are making mistake. In question "when it is completely filled with water from the fountain is"....

so it should be V/3
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If you know that the Volume of a Cone is (1/3rd) the Volume of a Right Circular Cylinder, then you know what this question is basically testing.


Volume of any right circular cone with same height and same radius = (1/3) (Volume of corresponding cylinder)

The cone takes up (1/3)V inside the cylinder

Thus: V - (1/3)V = (2/3)V remains inside the cylinder to be filled with water

2V/3

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I think you guys are making mistake. In question "when it is completely filled with water from the fountain is"....

so it should be V/3
I agree that was also what I understood from the text.

Bunuel please help
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If you know that the Volume of a Cone is (1/3rd) the Volume of a Right Circular Cylinder, then you know what this question is basically testing.


Volume of any right circular cone with same height and same radius = (1/3) (Volume of corresponding cylinder)

The cone takes up (1/3)V inside the cylinder

Thus: V - (1/3)V = (2/3)V remains inside the cylinder to be filled with water

2V/3

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I think you guys are making mistake. In question "when it is completely filled with water from the fountain is"....

so it should be V/3
I agree that was also what I understood from the text.

Bunuel please help

I was confused about this too, I think the wording of this problem is just really bad. I think what it means to say is that the fountain will fill up the cylinder from WITHIN (as in put the fountain in the tank, then run it), but the fountain itself doesn't count towards the total volume of water in the tank. That's why it's basically the volume of the cylinder excluding the cone. Again, very poorly worded question.
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