Question

The cylindrical storage shed shown below is completely filled with road salt to make a town's roads safer during snow storms. About 21,000 cubic feet of road salt is used during a typical snow storm.

a. What is the total volume of the storage shed?
b. How many snow storms can the town expect to handle before the storage shed needs to be refilled with additional road salt?

Answer 1

Answer:

125600 cu ft total volumn

5.98 snow storms (or rounded up to 6)

Step-by-step explanation:

volumn =pi * radius^2 * height  (radius is 1/2 diameter of 40)

v= 3.14 * 20^2 * 100

v= 125600 cu ft

divide total volumn by 21,000 used per snow storm = 5.98

note; this is using 3.14 for pi

using pi key = 125663.7 total volumn and 5.98 snow storms stays the same