Cooling towers at nuclear power plants have a "pinched" chimney shape formed by rotating a hyperbola around an axis. The function y = 60/1 + for -250 ≤ x ≤ 280, where and y are in feet, " 78400 describes the shape of such a tower (laying on its side). Determine the volume of the tower by rotating the region bounded by the graph of y about the x-axis.

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Cooling towers at nuclear power plants have a "pinched" chimney shape formed by rotating a hyperbola
around an axis. The function y = 60/1 +
for -250 ≤ x ≤ 280, where x and y are in feet,
78400
describes the shape of such a tower (laying on its side). Determine the volume of the tower by rotating
the region bounded by the graph of y about the x-axis.
Volume =
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square feet
ft^4
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Transcribed Image Text:Cooling towers at nuclear power plants have a "pinched" chimney shape formed by rotating a hyperbola around an axis. The function y = 60/1 + for -250 ≤ x ≤ 280, where x and y are in feet, 78400 describes the shape of such a tower (laying on its side). Determine the volume of the tower by rotating the region bounded by the graph of y about the x-axis. Volume = Select an answer Select an answer square feet ft^4 Question Help: Video Message in feet cubic feet Submit Question
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