Week4 quiz

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Week4 quiz1 If a sand pile 5 meters high has a mass of 236000 kg, then what would we expect to be the mass of a

geometrically similar sand pile 15 meters high? Using the differential estimate the mass of sand required to increase the

height of the pile from 5 meters to 5.02 meters.

236000/5 = x/15 or x=708000 kg is the mass of a 15m high pile of sand

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