SOLUTION: Please help me! Tomato Soup. The amount of metal S(in square inches) that it takes to make a can o tomato soup depends on the radius r and height h:
S = 2Pi^2+2Pirh
1) Rewrite
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Question 328904: Please help me! Tomato Soup. The amount of metal S(in square inches) that it takes to make a can o tomato soup depends on the radius r and height h:
S = 2Pi^2+2Pirh
1) Rewrite this formula by factoring out the GCF on the right- hand side.
2) Let h = 5in and write a formula that expresses S in terms of r.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The first thing you have to do is to write your formula correctly.
instead of
Each term has a 2, each term has a
, and each term has at least one
, so:
Next, plug in a 5:
And now you have an expression for
in terms of
John

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