Question

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Imagine a regularly sized can of tennis balls. If you were to wrap a string around the girth of the can and cut it so that it does not overlap, and then stretch the same piece of string along the can’s height, how would the length of string compare to the height of the can? Would it be shorter than the can? Longer? The same length? Make a prediction and type it in the response below.

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Answer 1

Answer:

Longer

Step-by-step explanation:

The official diameter of a tennis ball, as defined by the International Tennis Federation, is at least 2.575 inches and at most 2.700 inches. Tennis balls are sold in cylindrical containers that contain three balls each. To model the container and the balls in it, we will assume that the balls are 2.7 inches in diameter and that the container is a cylinder the interior of which measures 2.7 inches in diameter and 3 * 2.7 = 8.1 inches high. The circumference would be about 2.7 * π ≈ 8.48 inches. Since 8.48 > 8.1 inches, it would be longer