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Question 301939: Come up with a way to find the area and volume of a football. Include in your answer a way to acquire any necessary measurements without cutting or otherwise destroying the football. Also include all necessary formulas to implement your idea.
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! I assume you mean an American football, not a soccer ball.
Find the volume by measuring the amount of liquid it displaces.
Immerse it in a fish tank, for example.
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To find its area, measure the distance L from end to end. Use a piece of string.
Measure the diameter to get the radius at the center, the "widest part." You can use a string again, measure the circumference and calculate the radius from that.
The surface area = 2*pi*r*L (one of the Theorems of Pappus)
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