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ACT Aspire Math: How Many Pennies Are in Doug's Jar? 6 Views


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A single penny has a volume of 0.36 cubic centimeters. Douglas has a cylindrical jar that is 20 centimeters high and has a radius of 4 centimeters.

If Douglas's jar is completely filled with pennies, approximately how many pennies does Douglas have? Use V = πr2h for the volume of a cylinder.


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Okay you math people Here we go Another question for

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you A single penny has evolved you mlle of point

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three six cubic centimeters Douglas has a cylindrical jar that

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is twenty centimeters high and has a radius of four

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centimeters This thing right here if douglas jars completely filled

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with pennies approximately how many pennies does douglas have And

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we're going to use the formula here The volume equals

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pi r squared height for the volume of cylinder Okay

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so doug's been procrastinating about going to the coin star

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kiosk and now his chilean jar of pennies Well time

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to trade those little copper abe lincoln's for some george

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washington's or maybe even a ben franklin do well the

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first step here is to calculate the volume of the

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jar A cylinder with height h and radius r has

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a volume of pi r squared h So we just

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plop in the measurements of douglas jar that gets us

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v equals pi times four squared times twenty which is

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pi times sixteen times funny or three twenty pike cubic

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centimeters Well we need the number for our next step

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in decimal form So it's time to bust out our

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handy dandy calculator and i'll take three point one four

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as pie and that gets us And what is that

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About a thousand and five cubic centimetre or something like

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that Well the number of pennies that fit in the

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jar can be approximated by dividing the volume of the

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jar by the volume of one penny So that gets

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us a was that about a thousand voted by point

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three six gets us in twenty eight hundred so douglas

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can't have half a penny is that we're going around

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the number there too The exact Numbers of 2790 three

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pennies So that's the number It's a twenty seven dollars

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ninety three cents and that's just awesome Just in time

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