What is the volume of the tank? Round answer to nearest cubic foot?
A propane tank is made up of a cylinder with hemispheres
on each end. If the total length of the tank is 6 feet and
height is 2 feet,what is the volume of the tank? Round
answer to nearest cubic foot?
I don't know what they mean by 'height' here. I think they mean the tank is lying on its side, so 2 ft would be the diameter of each hemisphere, and the diameter of the cylinder.
That makes the radius 1 ft.
a sphere with a radius of 1 foot.
Volume of a cylinder = 3.14 x r^2 x height
=3.14 x radius x radius x height
Volume of a sphere = 4/3 x 3.14 x radius^3
= 4/3x 3.14 x radius x radius x radius
Volume of a hemisphere =4/3 x 3.14 x radius x radius x radius x 1 /2
2 Hemispheres makes one sphere
Volume of composite solid=Volume of a cylinder + Volume of a sphere
(3.14 x 1 x1 x 6 ) + (4/3 x 3.14 x 1 x 1 x 1) =
18.84 + 4.18666666 =23.02666666
Round answer to nearest cubic foot? answer is 23
volume of cylinder is 3.14x1x1x6=18.84 or 3.14x1x1x4 = 12.56?
2007-11-14
09:11:10
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