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Rearranging the Cone Volume Formula for Height

As an assistant inventory coordinator at a bulk landscape supply company, you are helping train a new team member. They need to know how to calculate the height of conical soil and mulch piles using the standard volume of a cone formula, V=13πr2hV = \frac{1}{3}\pi r^2 h. To make this calculation easy to perform on a tablet in the field, you must explain how to rearrange this formula to solve directly for the height, hh.

Recall the steps required to isolate hh from the formula V=13πr2hV = \frac{1}{3}\pi r^2 h. Write an explanation detailing:

  1. The first algebraic operation required to clear the fraction.
  2. The second algebraic operation required to isolate the height, hh.
  3. The final resulting formula solved for hh.

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