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Question 831364: Sarah buys her friend, Alyssa, a birthday present. She decides to mail her a bowling ball. The bowling ball fits tightly into a box that is a cube. Sarah would like to fill the extra space in the box with foam packing material.
What percent of the volume (space) of the box that remains and needs to be filled with the packing material?
*I don't know how to start this problem. The problem doesn't state the radius or diameter. Any help is greatly appreciated*
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Question 841277: A wooden cube with edge length n units (where n is an integer) is painted black all over. By slices parallel to its faces, the cube is cut into n3 smaller cubes each of unit length. Let x0, x1, x2 and x3 be the number of smaller cubes with 0, 1, 2 and 3 faces painted black. If x0 = x1, what is n?
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Question 862853: A cylindrical candy is cut into three smaller cylinders of various heights . What must be true about the smaller cylinders
A their volumes are the same
B their curved surface areas are the same
C their base areas are the same
D their total surface areas are the same
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Question 873887: I have a homework question.
its something along these lines.
"Billy has a box that is 20x40x30 in. he wants to fit the biggest ball he can in there, what percent of the box will this ball take up"
I know the volume of the sphere must be equal to or the same as the box, but I don't know how to do the rest of the problem.
Click here to see answer by josgarithmetic(39617) |
Question 873887: I have a homework question.
its something along these lines.
"Billy has a box that is 20x40x30 in. he wants to fit the biggest ball he can in there, what percent of the box will this ball take up"
I know the volume of the sphere must be equal to or the same as the box, but I don't know how to do the rest of the problem.
Click here to see answer by mananth(16946)  |
Question 879655: a cylinder of radius 1 cm and height 1 cm is broken in to three pieces. which of the following must be true and how? (prove it)
1. at least one piece has volume equal to 1 cm3
2. at least two piece has equal volume
3.at least one piece has volume less than 1 cm3
4.at least one piece has volume greater than 1 cm3
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Question 889516: a metal sphere with a radius of 3 cm is melted down and formed into a cylinder with a radius of 2 cm. Calculate the height of the cylinder. The metal cylinder is then melted down and formed into a cone with a radius of 1 cm. Calculate the height of the cone.
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