city has just bought a new load of salt to spread on the roads for snow melting. When the load was delivered, it was put into a pile that was roughly cone-shaped. The pile was 70 feet tall and had a circumference at the base of about 704 feet. find what the volume of the pile is in cubic feet, round to the nearest cubic foot. keep in mind salt weighs about 80 pounds per cubic foot.

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A city has just bought a new load of salt to spread on the roads for snow melting. When the load was delivered, it was put into a pile that was roughly cone-shaped. The pile was 70 feet tall and had a circumference at the base of about 704 feet.

find what the volume of the pile is in cubic feet, round to the nearest cubic foot.

keep in mind salt weighs about 80 pounds per cubic foot. how much did this pile weigh?

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