Time for MATH MINUTE! (provide your favorite theme music here).

Get out your paper & pencil because I have a new puzzle for you!!

PUZZLE #23 More or less? Mar. 19 – Mar. 23

Take a sheet of 8.5 by 11 inch typing paper and roll it into a cylinder so that the ends meet exactly.

This can be done in two ways, one way will have a height 8.5 inches and the other will be of height 11 inches.

Does one cylinder hold more than the other or do they hold the same volume (assuming you put ends on them)?

Math note: In case you need it, recall the volume V of a cylinder is the area A of the base (a circle) times the height h of the cylinder, V = Ah.

Send your comments, ideas and solutions before Monday to this email address, and be sure to put < MM > in the subject line parksjm@potsdam.edu

to see the results every Monday.

See you next time on MATH MINUTE! (theme music fades out here).