VOLUME OF A FRUSTUM

LEARNING OBJECTIVE
1. Calculate the volume of a frustum

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Volume of a frustum

Buckets and waste paper bins are often in the form of frustums. If the
top of a cone or pyramid is cut off along a plane parallel to the base,
the remaining figure is called frustum. The two diagrams below show
two frustums with a square base and circular base.

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Volume of Frustums – Method 1
• Then volume of a frustum is calculated by first calculating the volume
of the original cone or pyramid, then subtracting the volume of the
portion removed.
• Volume of a frustum Volume of original cone Volume of cone
removed.
• The cone removed will always be mathematically similar to the
original cone.
• When finding the volume of a frustum the same formula applies to
both the frustum of a pyramid and the frustum of a cone.

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FRUSM OF A CONE

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Frustum of a cone
• H is the height of the original pyramid
• h is the height of the cone removed
• Volume of a frustum Volume of original cone Volume of cone
removed.

• The cone removed will always be mathematically similar to the

original cone.

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Frustum of pyramid

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Frustum of pyramid
• H is the height of the original pyramid
• h is the height of the pyramid removed
• Volume of a frustum Volume of original pyramid Volume of pyramid
removed
• Volume

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Example 1
The frustum of a cone has height of and the radius of its ends are and .
Find its volume (take ).

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