Lab Report
Tennis Balls
Galore!!!
MATERIALS:
One regular sized shoebox, two tennis balls, Computational Commons
PURPOSE:
How many tennis balls can you fit into the Computational Commons minus
any removable materials (including lockers).
HYPOTHESIS:
My initial guess is that 500,000 tennis balls will fit into the
Computational Commons.
PROCEDURE:
Carla and I used our resources and started mapping out the volume of
the room with the length of the shoebox top. After finding the
length, height, and width of the room we determined how many cubic
boxes that would be. We then took into consideration the cabinets
and the extra space in the ceiling. Once again we used the length
of our shoebox top to map out the length, width, and height of each of
these special areas and either subtracted or added as it was
appropriate. We found that the total volume of the room was
6,240.5 cubic boxes. We also found that 5.5 tennis balls equal
the length of our shoebox top, therefore the volume in tennis balls of
one cubic box would be 5.5x5.5x5.5=166.375 balls. We then
converted the volume of the room (now in cubic boxes) to the number of
balls by multiplying 6,240.5x166.375 to reach the number of balls that
would fit into the Computational Commons.
CALCULATIONS:
26.5x24.8 cubic boxes (volume of room)
26.5x14x2.5 cubic boxes (extra space of room)
24x4x2
cubic boxes (extra space of room)
8x4.5x2 cubic boxes (to be subtracted for the door)
CONCLUSION:
1,038,263.188 balls will fit into the Computational Commons.
