SOLUTION: A manufacturer of tennis balls sells them in cylindrical containers. Each container can hold 3 balls. Each ball has a volume of 36pie cm cubed.
What volume remains unoccupied i
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Question 966745: A manufacturer of tennis balls sells them in cylindrical containers. Each container can hold 3 balls. Each ball has a volume of 36pie cm cubed.
What volume remains unoccupied inside the container ?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The can that holds the balls is a cylinder with the diameter equal to the diameter of the ball and the height equal to 3 diameters.
Find the diameter of the ball.
So then the volume of the cylinder is,
So then the empty space is,
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