Your Humanities class is having a recycling project where you have to collect tin cans. If you earn $0.02 for recycling the sweet peas can from Question 5, then how much can you expect to earn for recycling a tomato can that has a 2-inch radius and a height of 5.5 inches? The recycle value is proportional to the surface area.
Question
Answer:
First we look for the surface area of the tomato can.We have then:
A = 2 * pi * r * h
Substituting values we have:
A = 2 * pi * 2 * 5.5
A = 69.12
Then, we make the following rule of three:
12.57 in ^ 2 ------> 0.02 $
69.12 in ^ 2 ------> k
Clearing k we have:
k = (69.12 / 12.57) * (0.02)
k = 0.11 $
Answer:
You would expect to win:
k = 0.11 $
for recycling tomato cans
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