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A garbage can is commonly found in the shape of a cylinder. You can
find the capacity which garbage cans can hold by finding the volume.
The radius of the can is 10 inches and it is 31 inches in height.
On a hot summer day, say you want to have a water balloon fight
among your friends. Assume that all the balloons you are using are
spheres and each have a radius of 3 in. You can find the volume of the
cylinder by using the formula V= ∏r2h. 9738.937in2
Each balloon equals 355.306in . 27 balloons can fit in the trash can.
One cubic inch contains 0.554112 fl oz. Each balloon contains 196.879
fl oz. Since 27 balloons can fill the can you’ll use 5315.733 fl oz.
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A Ferris wheel is in the shape of a circle. A circle is the set of points in


a plane that are equidistant from the center of the circle. There are 60
carts in this Ferris wheel. Since a circle is 360o, the distance between
each cart is 6o. You’re in cart number 31 and you’re friend is in cart 19,
how many degrees apart are you. Say it takes 45 seconds between
each cart to unload and reload. how long will you have to wait for your
friend until they get off.
String instruments like the violin, viola, cello, and bass all use a bow to
produce sound. The bow is usually placed halfway between the bridge
and the fingerboard. To obtain a good, clear tone the bow should be
drawn consistently at a right angle to the string, and parallel to the
bridge and end of the fingerboard. The bow is perpendicular to the
string at point M.
Inductive reasoning
Patterns in music are found everywhere. Inductive reasoning is looking
for patterns and making conjectures. The pattern shown is in 4/4 time.
It begins with an eighth rest, eighth note, quarter note, eighth note,
sixteenth note, dotted eighth note, then eighth note. This pattern
repeats several times. On the bottom there is also a repeated pattern:
2 eighth notes. a quarter note, a dotted eighth note, then a sixteenth
note tied with a quarter note. You can use inductive reasoning while
playing music to predict what rhythm will be played. If you lost your
spot in the music, you can still play the rhythm with the correct bowing
even if you don’t get the notes right.
The petal of a rose can be seen as roughly the shape of a triangle. To
find the area of a triangle, the formula A= ½bh is used. To create a
romantic atmosphere, petals can be placed upon the bed. A king sized
bed is about 76 × 80 inches. You want to bed to be fully covered but
you want to use the least amount of petals possible.

The approximate area of a petal can be found using the area of a


triangle, which is
A= ½bh. The base of the petal is 1½ in and the height is 2 in. So the
area of a petal is approximately 1.5in2 . To find the area of the surface
of the bed use A= l × w. The area of the bed is 76×80= 3680 in 2.
Divide the area of the bed by the area of the petal to find how many
can fit on the bed. 5520

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