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Aimee packs ice cream into an I re cream co e she then puts a perfect hemisphere of ice cream on top of the co e that has a diameter of 5 cm what is the volume of the hemisphere half of the sphere

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Answered by GPT-4o mini
To find the volume of a hemisphere, we use the formula for the volume of a sphere and then take half of that value. The formula for the volume \( V \) of a sphere is given by:

\[
V = \frac{4}{3} \pi r^3
\]

where \( r \) is the radius of the sphere. Since we need the volume of a hemisphere, we take half of this volume:

\[
V_{\text{hemisphere}} = \frac{1}{2} \left( \frac{4}{3} \pi r^3 \right) = \frac{2}{3} \pi r^3
\]

Given that the diameter of the hemisphere is 5 cm, we can find the radius \( r \):

\[
r = \frac{\text{diameter}}{2} = \frac{5 \text{ cm}}{2} = 2.5 \text{ cm}
\]

Now we can substitute this value of \( r \) into the formula for the volume of the hemisphere:

\[
V_{\text{hemisphere}} = \frac{2}{3} \pi (2.5)^3
\]

Calculating \( (2.5)^3 \):

\[
(2.5)^3 = 2.5 \times 2.5 \times 2.5 = 15.625
\]

Now substituting back into the volume formula:

\[
V_{\text{hemisphere}} = \frac{2}{3} \pi (15.625)
\]

Calculating:

\[
V_{\text{hemisphere}} = \frac{31.25}{3} \pi \approx 10.41667 \pi
\]

Now approximating \( \pi \) as 3.14 for practical calculations:

\[
V_{\text{hemisphere}} \approx 10.41667 \times 3.14 \approx 32.76 \text{ cm}^3
\]

Therefore, the volume of the hemisphere of ice cream on top of the cone is approximately:

\[
\boxed{32.76} \text{ cm}^3
\]

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