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Given information

As per the given question,

  • Suppose you are asked to estimate the volume of a football.
  • You measure and find that a football is  cm long.
  • You use a piece of string and measure the circumference at its widest point to be  cm.
  • The circumference  cm from each end is  cm.
  • Use Simpson’s Rule to make your estimate. 

 

To find:- The volume of a football.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

As per the given question,

From the data given, there would be intervals.

The width of the intervals is , or

                                              , or

                                               

Given the circumference, the radius can be expressed as .

  

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