How Do You Find the Slant Height of a Cone?

How Do You Find the Slant Height of a Cone?

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Trying to find the slant height of a cone? Use the height of the cone and the radius of the base to form a right triangle. Then, use the Pythagorean theorem to find the slant height. Watch this tutorial to see this process step-by-step!

Keywords:

  • cone
  • slant height
  • solve slant height
  • unknown slant height
  • known height
  • pythagorean theorem
  • hypotenuse
  • right triangle
  • known radius
  • radius

Background Tutorials

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  • Powers and Exponents

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Further Exploration

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