He graduated at the bottom of his engineering class, now he’s reinventing the snow cone one low-tech step at a time
Rosco is redesigning the Snow Cone to save on cone material. His crude prototype starts with a pliable circular waffle he forms into a cone.
The cone will be completely filled with sweetened ice of an indistinct flavor. The finished product will include a hemisphere of ice topping the ice-filled cone.
The diameter of the circular waffle is 12.24656417 centimeters.
Find the largest possible volume of ice in the cone plus the hemisphere.
A correct answer sent to [email protected] could win a Tucker’s gift card.
Last week’s winner was Ben Chacon with radius of curvature r = 5 centimeters.
(Use of AI is strictly forbidden.)
Jeff Smith is a former Math teacher and a retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander. Reach him at [email protected].
