2017 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 11
Problem
The region consisting of all points in three-dimensional space within units of line segment
has volume
. What is the length
?
Solution 1
In order to solve this problem, we must first visualize what the region contained looks like. We know that, in a three dimensional plane, the region consisting of all points within units of a point would be a sphere with radius
. However, we need to find the region containing all points within
units of a segment. It can be seen that our region is a cylinder with two hemispheres on either end. We know the volume of our region, so we set up the following equation (the volume of our cylinder + the volume of our two hemispheres will equal
):
, where
is equal to the length of our line segment.
Solving, we find that .
Solution 2
Because this is just a cylinder and "half spheres", and the radius is
, the volume of the
half spheres is
. Since we also know that the volume of this whole thing is
, we do
to get
as the volume of the cylinder. Thus the height is
divided by the area of the base, or
, so our answer is
~Minor edit by virjoy2001
Diagram for Solution
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