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Lindor's Truffles have an outer shell diameter of 1.25 in. and a creamy milk chocolate fudge that makes up the inner circle of the ball that has a diameter of 0.5 in. How much more volume does the outer shell occupy then the inner fudge?

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Answer:

0.957 in^3

Explanation:

User Daryl Teo
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Answer:


0.96\text{ in}^3

Explanation:

We have been given that Lindor's Truffles have an outer shell diameter of 1.25 in. and a creamy milk chocolate fudge that makes up the inner circle of the ball that has a diameter of 0.5 in.

Since truffles are in shape of sphere, so we will use volume of spherical shells formula to solve our given problem.


\text{Volume of spherical shell}=(4)/(3)\pi (R^3-r^3), where,


R=\text{Radius of outer shell}


r=\text{Radius of inner shell}

We know that radius of a circle half the diameter of circle. So we need to divide diameters of inner and outer shell by 2 to find their respective radii.


\text{Radius of outer shell}=(1.25)/(2)=0.625


\text{Radius of inner shell}=(0.5)/(2)=0.25

Upon substituting the values of radii in above formula we will get,


\text{Volume of spherical shell}=(4)/(3)\pi (0.625^3-0.25^3)


\text{Volume of spherical shell}=(4)/(3)\pi (0.244140625-0.015625)


\text{Volume of spherical shell}=(4)/(3)\pi (0.228515625)


\text{Volume of spherical shell}=0.3046875\pi


\text{Volume of spherical shell}=0.95720401164\approx 0.96

Therefore, the outer shell occupies 0.96 cubic inches of more volume than the inner fudge.

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