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A round hole is drilled through the center of a spherical solid of radius r. The resulting cylindrical hole has a height of 4 cm.


a.) What is the volume of the solid that remains?


b.) What is unusual about the answer?

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AIf a is the radius of the drilled hole, then r^2 = a^2 + 2^2. If we let a -> 0, then r -> 2. Therefore, the volume of solid that remains is (4/3)�r^3 or 32*�/3 cm^3.
b) The answer is independent of the radius r. Although r must be greater than 2.

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