Dimensions of a Can of Soup
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ProblemYour best friend in the whole world rummages through your cupboards and emerges with a can of clam chowder. Being slightly obsessive about measuring objects, your friend uses a measuring tape and concludes that the radius of the can is 4 centimeters and the height is 12 centimeters. Your friend then poses some questions to you:
Being slightly obsessive about using Java to do all of your mathematical computations, you design a program to find answers to these questions. You are also a rebel; You do not like using the Java constant for PI, so you create your own. |
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Solution
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Useful constants - The point of this program.
// If you don't have constants for these then shame on you.
final double PI = 3.14159265; // Rebellious
final int HEIGHT = 12;
final int RADIUS = 4;
// The surface area is the circumference * the height
// and the area of the top and bottom
double surfaceArea = (2*PI*RADIUS*HEIGHT) + (2*PI*Math.pow(RADIUS,2));
// The volume is the area of the circlular portion of the can
// multiplied by the height
double volume = (PI*Math.pow(RADIUS,2)) * HEIGHT;
// Print out the answers to your friend's questions
System.out.println("1. The surface area of the can is "+surfaceArea+" centimeters squared.");
System.out.println("2. The volume of the can is "+volume+" centimeters cubed.");
System.out.println("3. No you may not eat the soup. Put it back.");
}
} | ||
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