document.write( "Question 1035235: three spherical chocolate candies are tightly packed in a cylindrical tube. the radius of the tube is 3 cm. what volume of air surrounds the candies \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let us consider ONE ball packed in this way.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The volume of the ball is .\r\n" );
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document.write( "The volume of the cylinder (radius r and the height 2r) is  = .\r\n" );
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document.write( "The difference is  = , i.e half of the volume of the sphere.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, the empty space has the volume half of that of the sphere.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Taken three times (for three chocolate balls), the empty space has the volume .\r\n" );
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