A patient in a hospital is given soup daily in a cylindrical bowl of diameter 7 cm. If the bowl is filled with soup to a height of 4 cm, how much soup the hospital has to prepare daily to serve 250 patients?
Solution:
Diameter of the cylindrical bowl
cm
Radius of the cylindrical bowl
cm
Height of soup in the cylindrical bowl
cm
Volume of soup in the cylindrical bowl = Soup given to 1 patient
Volume of soup needed for 250 patients
1000
litre
1
litres
38500
litres
Therefore, soup needed for 250 patients = 38.5 litres
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