During a food drive, a local middle school collected 8,759 canned food items. Each of the 32 classrooms that participated in the
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Answer:
Part a)
Part b)
Part c)
Step-by-step explanation:
Part a) What is the volume of your friend's swimming pool?
we know that
The volume of a rectangular prism is equal to
substitute the values
Part b) Your swimming pool is in the shape of a cylinder with a diameter of 16 feet and has the same volume as your friend's pool. What is the height of your pool?
we know that
The volume of a cylinder is equal to
we have
----> the radius is half the diameter
substitute and solve for h
Part c) While you were on vacation, 6 inches of water evaporated from your pool. About how many gallons of water evaporated from your pool?
remember that
so
Find the volume of water for
so
the volume of water evaporated is equal to
convert to gallons
remember that
so