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)

Question

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) 
What is the initial volume one snowball?
A) 33.5 cubic inches  
B) 2 inches   
C) 268.1 cubic inches
D) 25.1 cubic inches  
E)3.7 cubic inches

Anonymous · Answer

2^3 = 8 initial volume = (4/3) 3.14 * 8 = 33.5 in^3 If that is really what you asked for lose 360/40= 9 in^3 so end up at 24.5 in^3 = final volume