SOLUTION: A steel plant has to fill an order from an automobile manufacturer for 100,000 steel ball bearings ½ inches in diameter. What is the total weight of the metal required to fill this

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Question 344567: A steel plant has to fill an order from an automobile manufacturer for 100,000 steel ball bearings ½ inches in diameter. What is the total weight of the metal required to fill this order, if steel weighs 480 lb per cu. ft?
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Each bearing is a sphere.
The volume of a sphere is,


cu.inches
For 100,000 bearings, the volume would be,
cu. inches
There are inches in foot and cubic inches in cubic ft.
cubic feet
To find the weight, multiply the volume by the density,
lbs.

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