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Cavalieri's Principle Worksheet with Answer Key

7 problems on Cavalieri's principle: volumes of oblique prisms, cross sections of equal area, a winding flower bed, a pyramid and cone, four solids between parallel planes, and a slanted cylinder. 2 pages, with a worked answer key.

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  1. Find the volume of a glass doorstop shaped like an oblique prism with trapezoid ends.
  2. Find the height and volume of a slanted crystal block with triangle ends.
  3. Find the area of a flower bed between a winding path and its slid copy.
  4. Compare a cut pyramid and a cone with equal cross sections.
  5. Decide which of four solids between two planes have equal volumes.
  6. Find cross section areas of a solid and describe an upright solid with equal volume.
  7. Test a student's claim that a sawn cylinder has the same volume as an upright one.

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