In order to properly maintain a silo, a farmer must have the cement inside of the silo resurfaced from time to time as the acid associated with filling a silo with silage eats away at the sides and causes spoilage and structural damage. The cost of the recementing process is directly related to the lateral area of the inside of the silo.Find the lateral area of a silo 50 feet tall with an interior diameter of 16 feet. (The top sphere is not cemented).
So, the area of the inside of the cylindrical tube will be length of circumference times depths circumference = pi times diameter depth is 50 feet so pi times 16 times 50 or 800 pi But did they want you to include a base, or is the base just soil?
The lateral area (does not include the floor of the cilo) will be the inside circumference times the height. A = pi * diameter * height = 2513.27412287 square feet
