Duing the last winter carnival the local college students built a 30-foot snowman out of 100 tons of snow. How much snow will be
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Well, it's not clear if the snowman scales by getting taller but no wider or deeper, or scales in all three linear dimensions, or something more like the BMI scale where weight scales in proportion to the square of linear dimension.
The weight of the snow is proportional to the volume. Let's assume the snowman scales in all three dimensions so we use the third power.
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4.
The equation we have is:
To solve for "a", we want to isolate it in one side.
For this. we can start by multiplying each side by 5. This will make the denominator to cancel out:
Now, we can divide both sides by 8, which will cancel the coefficient 8 multiplying "a":
And that is the answer to 4.