Straight from my textbook:
Your iron works has constracted to design and build a 500 ft^3, square-based, open-top, rectangular steel holding tank for a paper company. The tank is to be made by welding 1/2 in.-thick stainless steele plates together along their edges. As the production engineer, your job is to find dimensions for the base and height that will make the tank weigh as little as possible. What dimensions do you tell the shop to use?
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I'm guessing the 1/2 in.-thick part of the question doesn't really matter. I don't know how to find the dimensions of the V (lwh) just knowing it equals 500..and have it contain only 1 variable.
I'm very calculus-challenged..please help! thank u.
Your iron works has constracted to design and build a 500 ft^3, square-based, open-top, rectangular steel holding tank for a paper company. The tank is to be made by welding 1/2 in.-thick stainless steele plates together along their edges. As the production engineer, your job is to find dimensions for the base and height that will make the tank weigh as little as possible. What dimensions do you tell the shop to use?
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I'm guessing the 1/2 in.-thick part of the question doesn't really matter. I don't know how to find the dimensions of the V (lwh) just knowing it equals 500..and have it contain only 1 variable.
I'm very calculus-challenged..please help! thank u.