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Course: High school geometry?>?Unit 9
Lesson 2: Cavalieri's principle and dissection methods- Cavalieri's principle in 2D
- Cavalieri's principle in 3D
- Cavalieri's principle in 3D
- Apply Cavalieri's principle
- Volume of pyramids intuition
- Volume of a pyramid or cone
- Volumes of cones intuition
- Using related volumes
- Use related volumes
- Volume of prisms and pyramids
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Apply Cavalieri's principle
Problem
Consider the following cylinder and cone.
Marcel tried to use Cavalieri's principle to show that the two figures have the same volume.
"The base areas are the same. Therefore, corresponding cross-sections have the same area. So the volumes must be the same."
What is the first mistake Marcel made?