Answer:
He is wrong.
In my answer I found the complete volume of the pool and then what the volume would be 10 cm empty. You probably only need to find the 10 cm emptied to answer, just a heads up. if you have any questions though let me know.
Step-by-step explanation:
To most easily figure out the volume of the empty pool I think it is easiest to break it up into four parts..
First break off that skinny end bit so it will have 1 m in height, 4 m in length and 5m in width. Width is never going to shange because of how we are breaking this up, and the width is the distance from you into the paper, if that makes sense. Basically not up and down or left and right.
Next another rectangular prism from the right side with 2 height, 2m length and again 5m width.
Now you have a trapezoidal prism with one base of length 1m, another of base 2m and a height of length 4m.
To fond the volume of prisms you want to find the area of their bases then multiply it by their heights. In this instance height is going to be the width again, and the bases are th parts facing us on the picture.
For a rectangular prism area of the base is easy, just multiply length by height. a trapezoid is taking the two bases (b1 and b2) ading them together and dividing that sum by 2, THEN taking this new number and multiplying it by what would be the height of the trapezoid. the trapezoid has its bases as two heights, and its height then would be the horizontal length of the pool. Sorry if that is confusing. Here are the three volumes though.
Rectangular 1: 4*1*5 = 20 m^3
Rectangular 2" 2*2*5 = 20m^3
Trapezoidal: = ([1+2]/2)*4*5 = 30 m^3
So total it is 70 m^3
The question then says each cubic meter can contain 1,000 liters of water. 70 m^3 then is 70,000 liters
The question also says there are three barrels of 20,000 liters each, so combined that's 60,000 liters.
Finally it wants to know if Sam is right saying if you dump all of the 60,000 liters into the pool the surface of the water will not reach the top of the pool by 10 cm. 60,000 is less than 70,000, but we don't know how much lower it is in cm.
The trick here is to know that we are lowering a specific dimension of each prism to a certain amount to be lower by 10cm
In the 4x1x5 rectangular prism the 1m side is lowering.
In the 2x2x5 rectangular prism the 2m side representing the vertical length is getting some amount taken away.
int he trapezoidal prism both of the "bases" are getting an amount taken.
So the trick here is to set up the math again, except this time with 10 cm less being subtracted from each part, then solving t and see if it gets us the 60,000 liters or 60 m^3. Since we are measurng in meters, 10 cm less is the same a subtracting .1, or if you prefer subtracting a decimeter.
4*1*5 becomes 4(.9)5 = 18
2*2*5 becomes 2(1.9)5 = 19
Trapezoidal: = ([1+2]/2)*4*5 becomes ([(.9)+(1.9)]/2)*4*5 = 28
Adding this all together gets us 65 or 65,000 liters. This means that if the pool is filled 10 cm from the top the volume would be 65,000 liters, still more than if the three tankers are emptied completely into it.
You could have probably just done the second part, where we sbtracted 10 cm from each of the dimensions, but I am going to leave it all since I wrote it.
