Bridger City has a cylindrical tank for storing water....

[kitkat]

Bridger City has a cylindrical tank for storing water used by the residents. The tank has a diameter of 30 feet and a height of 25 feet.

a. What is the volume of the tank? Explain how you found the volume.

b. One cubic foot of water is about 7.5 gallons of water. About how many gallons of water are in the tank? Explain how you found the number of gallons.

c. The city wants to build an additional tank with a volume of 150,000 gallons. Find a possible diameter and height for the new tank. Explain the method you used to find the dimensions. Hint: There is more than one correct answer.

 

[Denis]

Re: Bridger City has a cylindrical tank for storing water...

Correct!

 

[stapel]

Bridger City has a cylindrical tank for storing water used by the residents. The tank has a diameter of 30 feet and a height of 25 feet.

a. What is the volume of the tank? Explain how you found the volume.

What shape have you been given? What is the formula for the volume of this shape? What did you get, when you inserted the given values into this formula?

b. One cubic foot of water is about 7.5 gallons of water. About how many gallons of water are in the tank? Explain how you found the number of gallons.

What did you get when you applied the given equivalence to the value you obtained in part (a)?

c. The city wants to build an additional tank with a volume of 150,000 gallons. Find a possible diameter and height for the new tank. Explain the method you used to find the dimensions. Hint: There is more than one correct answer.

What have you tried? Where are you stuck?

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