Mathematics

Whitehead

8 November, 21:59

Imagine that you are an engineer for a soda company, and you are tasked with finding the most economical shape for its aluminum cans You are given a set of constraints: the can must hold a volume of liquid and be a cylindrical shape of height hand radius r, and you need to minimize the cost of the metal required to make the can

Look at a variety of aluminum cans of different sizes from the supermarket. Which models from problems a-c best approximate the shapes of the cans? Are the cans actually perfect cylinders? Are there other assumptions about the manufacture of the cans that we should take into account? Do a little bit of research, and write a one-page response to answer some of these questions by comparing our models to the actual dimensions used.