The question is incomplete:
Healthy Grains is planning a new design for its best-selling oatmeal. It has four containers to choose from. It costs the company $0.03 per cubic inch of oatmeal to fill a container. The company does not want the new container to cost more than $4.00 to fill. Which container should the company use? Use 3.14 for Pi.
Container A: A cylinder with height 7 inches and diameter 5 inches.
Container B: A cylinder with height 10 inches and B = 12.57 inches squared.
Container C: A cylinder with height 5.5 inches and radius 4 inches.
Container D: A cylinder with height 6 inches and radius 3 inches.
Answer:
Container B
Step-by-step explanation:
To find the answer you have to calculate the volume of each container and then, multiply that for $0.03 that is the cost per cubic inch to fill a container.
The formula to calculate the volume of a cylinder is:
V=πr^2h, where
r= radius
h= height
πr^2= base area
Container A:
The radius is half the diameter, so 5/2=2.5.
V= 3.14*(2.5^2)*7= 137.37
Cost= 137.37*0.03= 4.12
Container B:
12.57 inches is the base area, so:
V= 12.57*10= 125.7
Cost= 125.7*0.03= 3.77
Container C:
V= 3.14*(4^2)*5.5= 276.32
Cost= 276.32*0.03= 8.28
Container D:
V= 3.14*(3^2)*6
V= 169.56*0.03= 5.08
According to this, the answer is that the container that the company should use is container B because it costs less than $4.00 to fill.
