The problem describes a scenario where three children, Soufyane, Kadafi, and Maxwell, are tasked with filling water containers. Soufyane uses a cylinder, Kadafi uses a truncated pyramid, and Maxwell uses a truncated cone. We need to calculate how much money each child will receive if they fill their container completely, given that each 10 liters of water earns them 75 FCFA. We are given the dimensions of each container: - Soufyane: Cylinder with height $h_1 = 2m$ and radius $r_1 = 1m$. - Kadafi: Truncated pyramid formed from a regular pyramid, cut at one-third of the original height from the base. The original pyramid has height $h_2 = 4m$ and a square base with side length $2m$. - Maxwell: Truncated cone formed from a cone, cut at one-third of the original height from the base. The original cone has height $h_3 = 4m$ and base radius $r_3 = 1.5m$. We are given that $\pi = 3.14$.
2025/3/28
1. Problem Description
The problem describes a scenario where three children, Soufyane, Kadafi, and Maxwell, are tasked with filling water containers. Soufyane uses a cylinder, Kadafi uses a truncated pyramid, and Maxwell uses a truncated cone. We need to calculate how much money each child will receive if they fill their container completely, given that each 10 liters of water earns them 75 FCFA.
We are given the dimensions of each container:
- Soufyane: Cylinder with height and radius .
- Kadafi: Truncated pyramid formed from a regular pyramid, cut at one-third of the original height from the base. The original pyramid has height and a square base with side length .
- Maxwell: Truncated cone formed from a cone, cut at one-third of the original height from the base. The original cone has height and base radius .
We are given that .
2. Solution Steps
First, we calculate the volume of each container. Remember that 1 cubic meter is equal to 1000 liters.
*Soufyane (Cylinder)*
The volume of a cylinder is given by .
.
In liters, this is liters.
The number of 10-liter buckets is .
Soufyane receives .
*Kadafi (Truncated Pyramid)*
The original pyramid has height and base side length .
The volume of the original pyramid is .
The smaller pyramid that is cut off has height . By similar triangles, the side length of the smaller pyramid's base satisfies
. Thus .
The volume of the smaller pyramid is .
The volume of the truncated pyramid is .
In liters, this is approximately liters.
The number of 10-liter buckets is approximately . Since we can only have whole buckets, we consider 375 buckets.
Kadafi receives .
*Maxwell (Truncated Cone)*
The original cone has height and base radius .
The volume of the original cone is .
The smaller cone that is cut off has height . By similar triangles, the radius of the smaller cone's base satisfies
. Thus .
The volume of the smaller cone is .
The volume of the truncated cone is .
In liters, this is approximately liters.
The number of 10-liter buckets is approximately . Since we can only have whole buckets, we consider 662 buckets.
Maxwell receives .