What is the fraction of water that overflows?
A conical vessel of radius 6 cm and height 8 cm is completely filled with water. A sphere is lowered gently into the water and its size is such that when it touches the sides it is just immersed. If the fraction of water that overflows can be expressed as , where and are co-prime positive integers. What is ?
The answer is 11.
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