DSQ: Calculating the volume of a cylinder

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GMAT Quantitative Reasoning › DSQ: Calculating the volume of a cylinder

Questions
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1

What is the volume of the cylinder?

Statement 1: the cylinder has a radius of 3

Statement 2: the cylinder has a height of 4

2

Jenkins has a poster tube which he is using to carry his posters to college.

I) The poster tube has a volume of .

II) The poster tube is inches long.

What is the radius of the poster tube?

3

How much water, in cubic feet, can a cylindrical water tank whose bases have radius 6 feet hold?

Statement 1: The lateral area of the tank is 125.66 square yards.

Statement 2: The tank is 30 feet high.

4

Which of Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2, if either, has the greater volume?

Statement 1: The height of Cylinder 1 is equal to the radius of the base of Cylinder 2.

Statement 2: The height of Cylinder 2 is equal to twice the radius of the base of Cylinder 1.

5

How many identical cans can be packed in a certain box?

(1) The box is centimeters wide and centimeters high.

(2) Each can is centimeters high.

6

Give the radius of a cylinder with volume 1,000 cubic inches.

  1. Its height is 40 inches.

  2. The area of its base is 25 square inches.

7

A factory makes two sizes of cylindrical barrels. How many small cylindrical barrels full of liquid would it take to fill a large barrel?

Statement 1: A large cylindrical barrel is twice as high as a small cylindrical barrel.

Statement 2: A large cylindrical barrel is three times as wide as a small cylindrical barrel.

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