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75 Persons Can Sleep in a Room 25 M by 9.6 M. If Each Person Requires 16 M3 of the Air; Find the Height of the Room - Mathematics

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75 persons can sleep in a room 25 m by 9.6 m. If each person requires 16 m3 of the air; find the height of the room. 

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Solution

Let h be the height of the room.

1 person requires 16 m3

75 person requires  75 x 16 m3 =  1200 m3

Volume of the room is 1200 m3

1200 = 25 x 9.6 x h

h = `( 1200 )/( 25 xx 9.6 )`

h = 5 m

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Chapter 21: Solids [Surface Area and Volume of 3-D Solids] - Exercise 21 (A) [Page 269]

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Selina Concise Mathematics [English] Class 9 ICSE
Chapter 21 Solids [Surface Area and Volume of 3-D Solids]
Exercise 21 (A) | Q 4 | Page 269

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