SOLUTION: You put 12 meatballs, each of which has a volume of 50cm^3 into a saucepan. Then you pour a can of tomato sauce with volume 500cm^3 into the saucepan. If the sauce/meatball mixture

Question 1095207: You put 12 meatballs, each of which has a volume of 50cm^3 into a saucepan. Then you pour a can of tomato sauce with volume 500cm^3 into the saucepan. If the sauce/meatball mixture comes up to a height of 10cm, what is the area of the base of the saucepan in cm^2?
Answer by ikleyn(52908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let A be the area under the question, in centimeters squared.


Then your equation is  500 + 50*12 = A*10.


It says that the total volume of A*10 is the volume of the tomato sauce PLUS the volume of 12 meatballs.


Solve for A and get the answer.

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