Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Apothem of a triangle





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What is the apothem of a triangle?

The apothem is the distance from the center of an equilateral triangle to the side.

This video finds the apothem of a equilateral triangle with sides of 12 units.

For more about Equilateral Triangles see

Equilateral Triangles/MooMooMath

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Volume of a Cone and a Cylinder

Today's video reviews how to find the volume of a cone and a cylinder.
The cone video tackles finding the volume given the slant height and not the cone height. You can use the slant height with the Pythagorean Theorem to find the height,which you can plug into the slant height formula.



The cylinder video gives step by step directions for finding the volume of a cylinder.


For more on volume of a cone see:
Volume of a Cone

Volume of a Cylinder