Homework Help: Geometry

Posted by aleah on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 9:39pm.

A spherical storage tank has a diameter of 48 ft and is full of water. How many delivery trucks with
cylindrical tanks measuring 8 ft in diameter and 10 ft long can be completely filled from the storage
tank?

Geometry - Reiny, Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:23pm
volume of a sphere = (4/3)pi(r^3)
we know that r = 24

volume of cylinder = pi(r^2(h)
we know r = 4, h = 10

then divide volume of sphere by volume of cylinder
Geometry - george, Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:57pm
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