SOLUTION: A ball has a radius of 6cm. Jack puts some balls into a cylindrical tank with a diameter of 24cm containing water. The water level rises 8cm. How many balls are in the tank?
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Question 750429: A ball has a radius of 6cm. Jack puts some balls into a cylindrical tank with a diameter of 24cm containing water. The water level rises 8cm. How many balls are in the tank?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The volume of the added balls to the cylinder is .
1 ball has volume of .
The simplest question now to ask is, how many of these 1-ball volumes are in the volume difference found in the cylinder? is how many balls.
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