An underground storage tank is used to stor hazardous liquid. THe tank is shaped like a cylinder with semicircular ends. The cylinder has a radius of 2.5 feet and a height of 10 feet. The tank is buried tilting at an angel of 18 degrees. Liquid is put into and taken out of the tank through a pipe running perpendicular to the ground and going to the center of the side of the tank. The TAnk cannot be dug up until the liquid is taken out. A rod lowered into the pipe measures the leve of liquid at that point to be 22 inches. How much liquid in cubic feet is in the tank?
2007-05-28 22:43:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Unfortunately my teacher was incredibly vague. The information provided (excluding the typos) is all I was given. And the tank isn't being dug up per say, all that's wanted is how much liquid would be in the container.
-The cointainer is set so that it rests on its cylindrical side and not the semicircular top or bottom. (===) like that.
2007-05-29 04:55:07 · update #1
and the two ends, yes they would look like a pirate's chest. or you can think of it as a sphere sliced in half, covering both ends of the cylinder.
2007-05-29 04:57:58 · update #2
I can..... wait
2007-05-28 23:07:17 · answer #1 · answered by psbhowmick 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have to be much more specific, beacuse there are some things in your question that might be confusing...
"THe tank is shaped like a cylinder with semicircular ends."
... Are you saying that the tank is half of a cylinder, like the cover of an old pirate's chest?
"The tank is buried tilting at an angel of 18 degrees."
... In what orientation is the tilting? Horizontal or vertical?
"and going to the center of the side of the tank."
... This may have many possible positions. This will be more helpful if you can provide an illustration or diagram.
I hope I have helped you sort through the problem at hand. It would be really difficult to answer this question, if we don't know the exact position of the vessel.
2007-05-29 06:11:06 · answer #2 · answered by pisayweb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tank can't --ever-- be dug up since there will always be some liquid in the 'lower' end of it that the fill / discharge line won't be able to get since the tank isn't level.
Doug
2007-05-29 06:13:23 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋