SOLUTION: A water tank has been purchased for the farm. It will be used to water cattle. It is a cylindrical metal container that is 4 feet tall. The area of the bottom circle of the tank is

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Question 133004: A water tank has been purchased for the farm. It will be used to water cattle. It is a cylindrical metal container that is 4 feet tall. The area of the bottom circle of the tank is 9.8 square feet. If the cattle drink 168 cubic feet of water a day, how many times per day will the tank have to be filled?

Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, janzavala:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Start with the given expression


Now let's FOIL the expression



Remember, when you FOIL an expression, you follow this procedure:


Multiply the First terms:


Multiply the Outer terms:


Multiply the Inner terms:


Multiply the Last terms:


Now collect every term to make a single expression



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Answer:
So foils and simplifies to

In other words,

Answer by janzavala(1)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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