SOLUTION: Chris is planning to fill up a kiddie swimming pool for his younger sister but he does not have a water hose. He has decided to use a cylindrical bucket with a diameter of 12 inche

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Question 1113757: Chris is planning to fill up a kiddie swimming pool for his younger sister but he does not have a water hose. He has decided to use a cylindrical bucket with a diameter of 12 inches and a height of 14.5 inches. He has already calculated the approximate volume of the kiddie pool to be able to hold 60,000 cubic inches of water. Approximately how mant buckets of water will he need to use in order to fill the kiddie pool?
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Chris is planning to fill up a kiddie swimming pool for his younger sister but he does not have a water hose. He has decided to use a cylindrical bucket with a diameter of 12 inches and a height of 14.5 inches. He has already calculated the approximate volume of the kiddie pool to be able to hold 60,000 cubic inches of water. Approximately how many buckets of water will he need to use in order to fill the kiddie pool?
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Find the volume of the bucket.
It's a cylinder, r = 6, h = 14.5
Vol+=+pi%2Ar%5E2%2Ah cubic inches
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divide 60000 by the volume of the bucket.
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It's not reasonable that he doesn't have a hose.