Question

A serving bowl has an inside diameter of 12 inches and a depth of 4 inches. The bowl is fashioned from part of a sphere.
Find the capacity (volume) of the bowl.

Answer 1

just check out the volume of a spherical cap:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCap.html

Answer 2

That website isn't helpful since the problem is a box cross sectional problem. But thank you for trying to help