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Cultural Flavours - Packaging

This mathematical assignment involves calculating the most economical packaging for 1 liter of milk in different shapes - a cuboid, cylinder, and sphere. Students are asked to calculate the dimensions that result in the lowest ratio of surface area to volume for each shape. They are also prompted to consider which shape is the most practical for storage and selling, and if an even more economical shape could be devised.

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Cultural Flavours - Packaging

This mathematical assignment involves calculating the most economical packaging for 1 liter of milk in different shapes - a cuboid, cylinder, and sphere. Students are asked to calculate the dimensions that result in the lowest ratio of surface area to volume for each shape. They are also prompted to consider which shape is the most practical for storage and selling, and if an even more economical shape could be devised.

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Packaging

Cultural flavours – Mathematical


assignment from Amsterdam
The assignment
 In this assignment you are going to find out what the
most economical way of packaging is.
 Economical means that you use relatively the least
amount of packaging (area) compared to the volume.
 The assignment is all about milk in different shapes. The
objective is to find the best package (economically
speaking) of a litre of milk.
 An opening to pour out the milk is not taken into
consideration!
Exercise 1
 Start with a cuboid with a square
bottom:
 Calculate, rounded to whole
centimetres, at what measurements
for this package the most economical
package is made and give the ratio,
rounded to four decimal places,
between the area and the volume.
Show the calculations you made!
 (First give the formulas for the
volume and area of a cuboid)
Exercise 2
 Now take a cylinder:
 Calculate, rounded to one decimal
place, at what measurements for
this package the most economical
package is made and give the ratio,
rounded to four decimal places,
between the area and the volume.
Show the calculations you made!
 (First give the formulas for the
volume and area of a cylinder)
Exercise 3
 Now take a sphere:
 Calculate, rounded to one decimal
place, at what measurements for
this package the most economical
package is made and give the ratio,
rounded to four decimal places,
between the area and the volume.
Show the calculations you made!
 (First give the formulas for the
volume and area of a sphere)
Exercise 4
One of these packages is the most
economical one that can be made. Is
this one also the most practical one
for your refrigerator and for the
supermarket?
Exercise 5
Would it be possible to think of a
shape that it more economical in
packaging than the best one we
found in this exercise?
The End!

Have fun in
solving our
exercise!

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