Farmer John stores grain in a large silo located at the edge of his farm. The cylinder-shaped silo has one flat, rectangular face that rests against the side of his barn. The height of the silo is 30 feet and the face resting against the barn is 10 feet wide. If the barn is approximately 5 feet from the center of the silo, determine the capacity of Farmer John's silo in cubic feet of grain.Describe how you solved this problem and include your solution. How did working through this problem help you further develop your understanding of capacity and volume as it relates to cylinder-type shapes?I have no clue how to solve this problem. I know that the flat rectangular shape on the silo comes from a cross section of the cylinder going length wise.
you will have to include a drawing, I can't visualize it. .
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You have a 10 foot chord (the length of the straight line across the circle) and a perpendicular distance from center to chord of 5 feet. Since the chord length is twice the center to chord distance, the chord can be part of two equilateral right triangles with the equal sides being half of the chord and the line from chord to center, both those sides being 5 feet long. Therefore the hypotenuse of those triangles is the circle radius (line from center to each end of the chord).
capacity 0 -- as soon as he fills it the flat side will push out with the weight of the grain. OR if your teacher just wants a math exercise, assume a round silo and figure capacity, then calculate a D shaped section and subtract that capacity. probably would help to sketch it to scale on graph paper
