A farmer needs two steel silos for his farm. The floors will not be made of steel. He decides on the dimensions for one silo. a. How can you determine the amount of steel needed to build the silo? b. How much steel is needed to build the silo? c. The farmer decides the dimensions of the second silo will be twice as big as the first. How much steel will be needed to build the second silo? Click the icon to view the silo. a. To determine the amount of steel needed to build the silo, calculate the surface area of the cylinder without the bases and add half the surface area of a sphere whose radius is the same as the radius of the cylinder. b. A total of 2,511.77 ft^2 of steel is needed to build the silo. (Round to the nearest hundredth as needed.) c. A total of of steel will be needed to build the second silo. (Round to the nearest hundredth as needed.) 15.2 R1 15.2 ft wide 45 ft tall 45

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A farmer needs two steel silos for his farm. The floors will not be made of steel. He decides on the dimensions for one silo.
a. How can you determine the amount of steel needed to build the silo?
b. How much steel is needed to build the silo?
c. The farmer decides the dimensions of the second silo will be twice as big as the first. How much steel will be needed to build the
second silo?
Click the icon to view the silo.
a. To determine the amount of steel needed to build the silo, calculate the surface area of the cylinder without the bases and add
half the surface area of a sphere whose radius is the same as the radius of the cylinder.
b. A total of 2,511.77 ft^2 of steel is needed to build the silo.
(Round to the nearest hundredth as needed.)
c. A total of
of steel will be needed to build the second silo.
(Round to the nearest hundredth as needed.)
15.2 R1
15.2 ft wide
45 ft tall
45
Transcribed Image Text:A farmer needs two steel silos for his farm. The floors will not be made of steel. He decides on the dimensions for one silo. a. How can you determine the amount of steel needed to build the silo? b. How much steel is needed to build the silo? c. The farmer decides the dimensions of the second silo will be twice as big as the first. How much steel will be needed to build the second silo? Click the icon to view the silo. a. To determine the amount of steel needed to build the silo, calculate the surface area of the cylinder without the bases and add half the surface area of a sphere whose radius is the same as the radius of the cylinder. b. A total of 2,511.77 ft^2 of steel is needed to build the silo. (Round to the nearest hundredth as needed.) c. A total of of steel will be needed to build the second silo. (Round to the nearest hundredth as needed.) 15.2 R1 15.2 ft wide 45 ft tall 45
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