To solve this we are going to use the formula for the volume of a sphere:

where

is the radius of the sphere
Remember that the radius of a sphere is half its diameter; since the first radius of our sphere is 24 cm,

. Lets replace that in our formula:



Now, the second diameter of our sphere is 36, so its radius will be:

. Lets replace that value in our formula one more time:



To find the volume of the additional helium, we are going to subtract the volumes:
Volume of helium=

We can conclude that the volume of additional helium in the balloon is
approximately <span>
17,194 cm³.</span>
By some properties of logarithms, rewrite the equation as

so that
(<em>a</em> - 2<em>b</em>)² = <em>ab</em>
Expand the left side:
<em>a</em> ² - 4<em>ab</em> + 4<em>b</em> ² = <em>ab</em>
Rearrange terms to get a quadratic equation in <em>a</em>/<em>b</em> :
<em>a</em> ² - 5<em>ab</em> + 4<em>b</em> ² = 0
<em>b</em> must be greater than 0, otherwise log(<em>b</em>) doesn't exist, and the same goes for <em>a</em>. So we can divide by <em>b</em> ² to get
<em>a</em> ²/<em>b</em> ² - 5<em>a</em>/<em>b</em> + 4 = 0
Factorize and solve for <em>a</em>/<em>b</em> :
(<em>a</em>/<em>b</em> - 4) (<em>a</em>/<em>b</em> - 1) = 0
==> <em>a</em>/<em>b</em> = 4 or <em>a</em>/<em>b</em> = 1
However, if <em>a</em>/<em>b</em> = 1, then <em>a</em> = <em>b</em> makes <em>a</em> - 2<em>b</em> = -<em>b</em>. But we must have <em>b</em> > 0, so we omit the second solution and end up with
<em>a</em>/<em>b</em> = 4
The ratio 21:28 in it's simplest form is 3:4
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