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Test it out with two sheets of paper. Place the taller cylinder inside the shorter one.

Fill the taller cylinder with dry cereal, rice, or popcorn; then remove it from the shorter cylinder. Which holds more?

Another way to get started is to compute the volume of both cylinders.

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