SOLUTION: You may have heard that a basketball hoop is largeenough for two basketballs to go through the ringside by side.The inside diameter of a basketball rimis 18 inches The circumferenc
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Question 1184405: You may have heard that a basketball hoop is largeenough for two basketballs to go through the ringside by side.The inside diameter of a basketball rimis 18 inches The circumference of a basketball must beno less than 29.5 and no greater 30 than . Is thehoop wide enough to accommodate two basketballsat the same time? Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! ASSUMING that the values of 29.5 and 30 you mentioned in your question are actually 29.5 inches and 30 inches,
respectively, then from the given,
, where C is the circumference of the ball.
<===> , where D is the diameter of a ball.
<===> .
===> , or .
Therefore two identical basketballs getting into the hoop side-by-side won't be possible.
