Kelly and Adam are buying boxes filled with candy to give to friends. Kelly chooses a cone-shaped box that has radius x. Adam chooses a box in the shape of a square pyramid, with the same height as Kelly's box and a side length of xπ√. Adam states that the volumes of the two boxes are the same. Kelly disagrees. Which statement is true?

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Alonso Singh

Mathematics

8 December, 13:21

Kelly and Adam are buying boxes filled with candy to give to friends. Kelly chooses a cone-shaped box that has radius x. Adam chooses a box in the shape of a square pyramid, with the same height as Kelly's box and a side length of xπ√. Adam states that the volumes of the two boxes are the same. Kelly disagrees. Which statement is true?

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Ariella Barrett · Answer 1

Kelly and Adam are buying candy boxes to give to friends

Step-by-step explanation:

Kelly statement is true.

1. Kelly buy a candy box which is cone - shaped with radius x.

2. Adam buy a candy box which is square pyramid shape with same height as Kelly's box but the side length is xπ√.

3. Two candy boxes have different in shape so volumes of the boxes will be different.