Cylinder and sphere
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What is the radius of the largest sphere that I can carve out of a cylindrical block of wood having height 5 cm and radius 1 cm?
The answer is 1.
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1 solution
Well, the sphere has to be able to fit inside the cylinder, so to maximize the area, it must have the same radius, 1.