Question

why would a school ever ask me this question? I want to know how many ping pong balls you can fit within a much larger sphere.
The larger sphere has a circumference of ~96in.
A ping pong ball has a circumference of ~4.9634in.

Answer 1

i spose youd need to determine how much volume 6 pongs eat up and divide that into the sphere

Answer 2

i have no idea how to do that?

Answer 3

or maybe 5 pongs; they fit together to tesselate in some fashion

Answer 4

alright ill try

Answer 5

i got no clear way to think this thru for any suitable answer tho

Answer 6

what would i give as an answer, i cant leave it blank.

Answer 7

youd have to think it thru and imagine something plausible id suppose. there might be some ideas or answers on the google

Answer 8

okay forsure. i looked at this and was like.. what the heck...

Answer 9

lol ... yeah, and the drawing tool on here aint good to determine some tests with

Answer 10

yeah the tool sucks

Answer 11

can you figure this one out?

Answer 12

5 foot-long cylindrical pipe has an inner diameter of 6 feet and an outer diameter of 8 feet.
If the total surface area is kn(n=Pi) ,what is the value of k ?

Answer 13

kn(n=Pi) ??

Answer 14

k times n and n=3.14 or pi

Answer 15

ahhh yeah, that ones more doable

Answer 16

8pi * 5 + 6pi * 5 + 2(pi(8^2-6^2)) might get the total surface area

Answer 17

make that 4^2 and 3^2 instead

Answer 18

if im lucky that means k=84

Answer 19

* does that mean?

Answer 20

times, mulitply

Answer 21

the circumference of the outer * height

plus

the circumference of the inner * height

+ 2 surface areas that are the areas of the larger - smaller

Answer 22

yeah your right

Answer 23

i can be at times lol

Answer 24

hahaha as long as they don't involve ping pong balls

Answer 25

:D

Answer 26

the pongs just will take a bit of figuring to get to something useful :)

Answer 27

indeed. how old are you if u dont mind me asking?

Answer 28

very old, i quit counting years ago

Answer 29

haha so if im 17 should i be doing these sorts of problems?

Answer 30

Brian hits a baseball straight toward a 15 ft high fence that is 400 feet away from home plate. THe ball is hit when it is 2.5 feet from the ground and leaves the bat at an angle of 30 degrees with the horizontal. Find the initial velocity needed for the ball to clear the fence

Answer 31

this ones doable, im trying to figure out a good process for the pongs on the side lol

Answer 32

lol. dude are you like some rocket scienctist? work for nasa? haha