Question

a pillar from an ancient city was found buried in the ground. It has a cross-sectional shape like that shown in the figure. If the area of the cross section is nineteen and eight hundredths square meters, and the pillar was twenty two and two tenths meters tall, what was the total volume of stone contained by the pillar.

Answer 1

Volume = (cross‑sectional area) × (height) = 19.08 × 22.2 = 423.576 cubic meters.

So the pillar contained 423.576 m³ of stone.