SOLUTION: Without doing any calculation explain whether you think the rectangular box or cylinder box will have the greater volume

Question 1144281: Without doing any calculation explain whether you think the rectangular box or cylinder box will have the greater volume

Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, Alan3354:
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Fill the cylindrical box with water or with sand -- on your choice.

Then pour the water from the cylindrical box to the rectangular one or empty the sand from one box to the other,
and you will get the answer without using a calculator.

Or, if, in opposite, the boxes are hermetically closed, you may determine which of the two boxes displace more water,
when they are submerged into a filled pool, one after another, in two independent experiments.

Does my response answer your question ?

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Let me share other similar joking problem with you:

How to measure the height of the building if you have a barometer and a chronometer, only ?

The answer is: drop the barometer from the top of the building and determine, using the chronometer, the time of falling.

Then calculate the height, using well known Physics formulas.

Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Depends on the dimensions of the boxes.
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