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Calculating Water Volume in Jar with Marbles

A boy dropped 4 marbles into a cylindrical jar so they formed a tetrahedron shape at the bottom. The marbles had a diameter of 20 mm and he poured just enough water to cover them. The lines connecting the centers of the marbles formed a regular tetrahedron with edges of 20 mm. Using trigonometry, the depth of the water could be calculated based on the radius of the cylinder and the height of one of the tetrahedron triangles.

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Calculating Water Volume in Jar with Marbles

A boy dropped 4 marbles into a cylindrical jar so they formed a tetrahedron shape at the bottom. The marbles had a diameter of 20 mm and he poured just enough water to cover them. The lines connecting the centers of the marbles formed a regular tetrahedron with edges of 20 mm. Using trigonometry, the depth of the water could be calculated based on the radius of the cylinder and the height of one of the tetrahedron triangles.

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Example 014

A boy who had discovered that 20 mm marbles fitted snugly into the bottom of a cylindrical jar,
dropped in a fourth on top of the three and poured water enough into the jar to just cover them.
How much water did he use?

Solution 014

The lines connecting the center of marbles will form into a regular tetrahedron of edge 20 cm.

From triangle ABC


Radius of cylinder

Solving for h from right triangle CED

Depth of water

Volume of water

answer

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