The cylinder is a clue to use cylindrical coordinates. Taking

and

, we then are forced to use

. So the parameterization of the intersection of the plane and cylinder is

To get the surface, we can introduce a second parameter

that "contracts" the elliptical intersection to a point. The simplest way to do this is to use

with

and

.
Answer:
890
Step-by-step explanation:
5 raised garden beds will need 178×5=890 bags of soil
It is an integer and a rational number