Mindy is a sculptor. She has a cylinder of stone with a radius of 3 m and a height of 2 m. She needs to carve out a sphere of radius 1 m from the cylinder. Mindy must cut away 3vπ cubic meters (m3) of stone from the cylinder in order to be left with the sphere. What is the value of v?
Q. Mindy is a sculptor. She has a cylinder of stone with a radius of 3 m and a height of 2 m. She needs to carve out a sphere of radius 1 m from the cylinder. Mindy must cut away 3vπ cubic meters (m3) of stone from the cylinder in order to be left with the sphere. What is the value of v?
Calculate Sphere Volume: Calculate the volume of the sphere that Mindy needs to carve out.Volume of a sphere formula: V=34πr3V=34π(1)3V=34π cubic meters
Identify Volume of Stone: Identify the volume of the sphere as the volume of stone Mindy must cut away. v=34π cubic meters
Volume Equals Sphere: Since the volume of the sphere is the volume Mindy must cut away, v is equal to the volume of the sphere.v=34π
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