That's 5 lengths for a three sided shape... Are you sure that is the instructions?
8 post 4ft is the length 2ft ,yes if you dived 5 from 40 that is how many post , then you dived how many posts and that is the height then you dvide that and that is your width.
13 dollars per gallon
130\10 = 13
The shape of a basket ball is like sphere so use the formula of sphere vol.= 4/3*pie*r3 find the radius by r=D/2