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Interactive Problem 112: Length of Seams on a Soccer Ball


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#./interaufg112_en.tex#Although Sepp Herberger (the famed coach of the German national soccer team in 1954) coined the sentence ``The ball is round!'', let us assume that a soccer ball is a polyhedron, the vertices of which lie on the surface of a sphere with a diameter measuring 30 cm.

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What is the total length of the seams on a soccer ball with this diameter?


Answer:

Total length:     cm

(The result should be correct to two decimal places.)


   

Solution:


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