SOLUTION: While you are moving grain from your truck to your silo, you are45 feet away from the silo and the angle of elevation to the top of the silo is 45 degrees. While pondering how inte

Question 752318: While you are moving grain from your truck to your silo, you are45 feet away from the silo and the angle of elevation to the top of the silo is 45 degrees. While pondering how interesting that is, you are joined by your neighbor who ones to know how much grain you can hold in our silo. Determine the volume of your silo, in cubic feet, so that you can answer his question.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
While you are moving grain from your truck to your silo, you are 45 feet
away from the silo and the angle of elevation to the top of the silo is
45 degrees.
While pondering how interesting that is, you are joined by your
neighbor who ones to know how much grain you can hold in our silo.
Determine the volume of your silo, in cubic feet, so that you can answer his question.
:
Find the height of the silo using the tangent of 45 degrees
we know that = 1
tan(45) = h/45
h = 45
We have to know the radius of the silo to do this.
V =
RELATED QUESTIONS
You are 45 feet away from a silo and the angle of elevation to top of silo is 45 degrees. (answered by Alan3354,Jalicia1)

Conveyor belts called grain elevators are used to move grain into a silo. Answer the... (answered by josgarithmetic)

A farmer has two grain silos, both shaped like right circular cylinder, with dimensions... (answered by oberobic)

Silos are watertight and airtight structures typically used for storing and making... (answered by solver91311,ewatrrr)

you are standing at c. 8 feet from a silo. A is the center of the circular base of the... (answered by greenestamps,ikleyn)

I am currently a middle school math teacher, and I cannot seem to figure out how to solve (answered by kev82)

You are standing 18 feet from the circular wall of a silo and 36 feet from a point of... (answered by jim_thompson5910)

A grain silo is in the shape of a cylinder. The silo has a diameter of 12 feet and a... (answered by MathLover1)

Please help me! The farmer has a cylinder shaped silo with one flat rectangular face that (answered by rfer)