Question

A patient in a hospital is given soup daily in a cylindrical bowl of diameter 7 cm. If the bowl is filled with soup to a height of 4 cm, how much soup the hospital has to prepare daily to serve 250 patients?

• A. $40$ litres
• B. $38.5$ litres
• C. $38$ litres
• D. $39.5$ litres

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

$38.5$ litres

Required amount of soup = volume of soup $\times$ No. of patients = $\pi \times (\frac{7}{2}{)}^2\times 4\times 250$ = $38500c{m}^3$ = $38.5l$