SOLUTION: 20. Three balls are packaged in a cylindrical container as shown below. The balls just touch the top, bottom, and sides of the cylinder. The diameter of each ball is 13 cm. htt

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Question 612061: 20. Three balls are packaged in a cylindrical container as shown below. The balls just touch the top, bottom, and sides of the cylinder. The diameter of each ball is 13 cm.

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a. What is the volume of the cylinder rounded to the nearest cubed centimeter?
b. What is the total volume of the three balls rounded to the nearest cubed centimeter ?
c. What percent of the volume of the container is occupied by the three balls?

Answer by Earlsdon(6294)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The height of the cylinder (h) is three time the diameter of each ball, or:
cm.
cm.
The radius of the cross-section of the cylinder is the same as the radius of a ball, or:

cm.
a) The volume of the cylinder is:
Substitute , and use as an approximation.

cu.cm. Round to nearest cubic cm. to get:
cu.cm.
b) The total volume of the three balls is:


cu.cm. Round the nearest cubic cm. to get:
cu.cm.
c) The percent volume of the container occupied by the three balls is:

%

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