Jake stores a small cache of4-inch-diameter snowballs in the basement freezer, unaware that the freezer’s self-defrosting feature will cause each snowball to lose about 1 cubic inch of volume every 40 days. Here members them a year later (call it 360 days) and goes to retrieve them.(𝑉=43𝜋𝑟3)

By what fraction is the volume reduced after 360 days?
A) ½
B) 4/3
C) 8/9
D) 36/4
E) 1/9

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Jake stores a small cache of4-inch-diameter snowballs in the basement freezer, unaware that the freezer’s self-defrosting feature will cause each snowball to lose about 1 cubic inch of volume every 40 days. Here members them a year later (call it 360 days) and goes to retrieve them.(𝑉=43𝜋𝑟3) 
By what fraction is the volume reduced after 360 days?
A) ½    
B) 4/3   
C) 8/9     
D) 36/4   
E) 1/9