Please Help! Dimitri bought a cylindrical clay flowerpot that holds approximately 15 gallons of dry soil (1 gallon ≈ 0.15 cubic feet). The radius of the pot is 9 inches. What is the height of the flowerpot to the nearest tenth of a foot? Show your work.

step-by-step explanation:

no, her answer is not correct.   we square the lengths of all sides and then determine whether the pythagorean theorem holds here:

9² + 15² = 306.   this is not equal to the square of the longest side ( that square being 395.   answer c is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

b is the right answer