document.write( "Question 1205078: From a cylindrical object of diameter 70cm and height 84cm, a right solid cone having its base as one of the circular ends of the cylinder and height 84cm is removed.
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document.write( "Calculate:
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document.write( "a) The volume of the remaining solid object, expressing your answer in the form of a × 10ⁿ where 1 < a < 10 and n is a positive integer.
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document.write( "b) The surface area of the remaining solid object \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #841710 by math_tutor2020(3817) ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \n" ); document.write( "Part (a)\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "If a cylinder and cone have the same radius and height, then we have this very interesting connection: \n" ); document.write( "cone = (1/3)*cylinder \n" ); document.write( "or \n" ); document.write( "cylinder = 3*cone\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "This is an informal way of saying \"we need 3 cones to make a cylinder\". \n" ); document.write( "In other words, 3 cone volumes combine to a cylinder volume. \n" ); document.write( "Again, both must share the same radius and same height.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Luckily the radius values are the same because we're carving a cone out of the cylinder. \n" ); document.write( "And both heights are the same as well (84).\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "After carving a cone out of the cylinder, the cylinder loses 1/3 of its volume and keeps the remaining 2/3.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "volume of cylinder = pi*r^2*h \n" ); document.write( "volume of cylinder = pi*(70/2)^2*84 \n" ); document.write( "volume of cylinder = 102900pi\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "2/3 of that volume is (2/3)*102900pi = 68600pi which is the leftover amount.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Your teacher hasn't stated something like \"use pi = 3.14\", so I'll use the calculator's stored version of pi instead. \n" ); document.write( "68600pi = 215,513.25603626 \n" ); document.write( "which rounds to 215,513\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "That converts to the scientific notation 2.15513 * 10^5 \n" ); document.write( "This is because we move the decimal point 5 spots to the right to go from 2.15513 back to 215,513 again.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Part (b)\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The cylinder has a circular floor area of: \n" ); document.write( "pi*r^2 \n" ); document.write( "= pi*(70/2)^2 \n" ); document.write( "= 1225pi \n" ); document.write( "We'll use this value later. Let x = 1225pi\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The area of the curved walls, aka lateral area of the cylinder, is: \n" ); document.write( "(circumference of circular base)*(height) \n" ); document.write( "= (pi*diameter)*(height) \n" ); document.write( "= (pi*70)*(84) \n" ); document.write( "= 5880pi \n" ); document.write( "We'll use this value later. Let y = 5880pi\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Then the last piece to consider is the lateral surface area of the cone carved out of the cylinder. \n" ); document.write( "We can think of this as an \"inverted\" surface area of sorts, since we're effectively looking at the inside wall of the cone we carved out. \r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The lateral surface area of a cone is \n" ); document.write( "pi*r*L \n" ); document.write( "where \n" ); document.write( "L = slant height of the cone \n" ); document.write( "L = sqrt(r^2+h^2) due to the pythagorean theorem\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "We can update that formula to get \n" ); document.write( "pi*r*sqrt(r^2+h^2) \n" ); document.write( "= pi*(70/2)*sqrt((70/2)^2+84^2) \n" ); document.write( "= 3185pi \n" ); document.write( "We'll use this value later. Let z = 3185pi\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The last thing to do is add the results we got to determine the entire surface area of this strange 3D shape. \n" ); document.write( "x+y+z = 1225pi+5880pi+3185pi \n" ); document.write( "= (1225+5880+3185)pi \n" ); document.write( "= 10290pi\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The total exact surface area of this strange 3D shape is 10290pi square cm\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I'll let the student compute the approximate version of this value. \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |