Hole in a Sphere
A 6-inch hole is drilled through a sphere. What is the volume of the remaining portion of the sphere?
Clarifications:
[1] the hole is a circular cylinder of empty space whose axis passes through the center of the sphere - just as a drill would make if you aimed the center of the drill at the center of the sphere and made sure you drilled all the way through.
[2] the length of the hole [6 inches] is the height of the cylinder that forms the inside surface once the hole is drilled. picture the inside surface as viewed from inside the hole and measure the length of that surface in the direction of the axis of the drill.
in this sense, you could for example drill a 6-inch hole through the earth. the diameter of the hole would be huge, and you'd just have a tiny remnant of the earth left. but if you could set it on a table [a big table] it would be 6 inches high.
You of course could not drill a 6-inch hole through a sphere whose diameter was less than 6 inches. This fact leads to the logical answer.
The hard way involves calculus. The easy way uses logic.
Solution
How Did It Happen?
A man runs a mile south, a mile west, and a mile north and ends up back where he started!
But the real riddle is that there are actually an infinite number of answers for where the man could have started from. Explain.
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