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PSAT 1.11 Math Diagnostic. What is the value of n ?


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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by candy We swore we were gonna

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be good and not by any of the movie theater

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but we're willing to make one small concession Check this

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figure out boxes Approximately seventy five percent full by volume

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of spherical candies each with a diameter of zero point

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five inches If the box contains one hundred thirty seven

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pieces of candy what is the value of in And

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here The potential answers Apparently this box of candy comes

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complete with measurements variables and volume formulas it's almost enough

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to take the fun right out of slowly destroying your

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teeth Okay so what's the question asking we've got this

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box full of candy and we're told that seventy five

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percent full like someone couldn't wait for the movie to

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start We're also told that the spherical candies contained therein

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each have a diameter of coming five inches though they're

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about this big were given the width and height of

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the candy box and we know there are one hundred

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thirty seven pieces of candy inside Well our job is

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to find the measurement of that last side only to

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start by figuring out how much space is taken up

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by one of the candies For that we'll need our

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trusty volume of a sphere formula which he recalled is

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four thirds pi times the radius do well if the

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diameter is point five inches than the radius must be

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half that or point two five inches and we've got

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everything we need to calculate the volume Plugging all this

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business into our calculator we get roughly point o six

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five four four cubic Inches That doesn't sound very big

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One more couldn't hurt Now we know there are one

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hundred thirty seven pieces of candy in the box so

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we could multiply our result by one hundred thirty seven

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to get the total volume of space being taken up

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by our little chocolatey friends Point o six five four

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four times one thirty seven equals eight point nine six

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six six cubic inches Great So we've got the volume

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of the box right Oh if only life were that

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simple remember the candies air only taking up seventy five

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percent of the box So our eight point nine six

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six six cubic inches represents three fourths of the box

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total volume though if eight point nine six six six

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cubic inches is seventy five percent of the volume we

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can multiply by four third's to get the volume of

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the whole kit and caboodle That will give us eleven

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point nine five five five cubic inches Hell didn't sound

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like all that much Now we're trying to find the

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volume of the box using our formula for a rectangular

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prism It's just length times with times height while we

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have two of those Three with the other roving in

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the volume of the box is also six times four

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times end or twenty for end Next we consent twenty

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for an equal to eleven point nine five five five

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since we know that both represent the volume of the

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box and divide both sides by twenty four To get

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n equals point Four nine eight or almost exactly point

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five inches Cute that it be Option c which comes

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very close to hitting the nail directly on the head

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Oof Those tiny half inch candie's you add up quickly 00:03:07.78 --> [endTime] as can one's dental bills

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