SOLUTION: a cylinder canister holds three tennis balls they have the same diameter as the cylinder which is 6cm.and that the balls come straight up to the top about how much space in the cyl

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Question 704895: a cylinder canister holds three tennis balls they have the same diameter as the cylinder which is 6cm.and that the balls come straight up to the top about how much space in the cylinder is not taken up by the tennis balls?

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The volume of a sphere (one of the tennis balls) is given by . Using half the given diameter as the radius of one of the balls, calculate the volume of a tennis ball and multiply it by 3. Then, using the fact that balls fill the can completely to the top, the height of the can must be three times the diameter of one of the balls, and the formula for the volume of a cylinder, , calculate the volume of the cylinder. Then subtract the volume of the three balls from the volume of the cylinder.

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