<p> How would you solve it?</p><p> <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/How-Many-Golf-Balls-Can-Fit-In-a-School-Bus-2481?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheAtlanticWire+%28The+Atlantic+Wire%29">A clever reader's response</a>, which begins:</p><blockquote> <p> I figure a standard school bus is about 8ft wide by 6ft high by 20 feet long—this is just a guess based on the thousands of hours I have been trapped behind school buses while traffic in all directions is stopped.<br/><br/> That means 960 cubic feet and since there are 1728 cubic inches in a cubit foot, that means about 1.6 million cubic inches.<br/><br/> I calculate the volume of a golf ball to be about 2.5 cubic inches (4/3 * pi * .85) as<br/><br/><br/><br/></p> <p> .85 inches is the radius of a golf ball.</p>\n</blockquote><p> <a href="http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2010/11/math-how-many-golf-balls-would-fit-in-a-school-bus.html">The rest can be found here</a>.</p><p> <em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/basheertome/4597447306/sizes/l/in/photostream/">Photo</a> (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/">cc</a>) via Flickr user <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/basheertome/">basheertome</a> </em></p><p> <em><a href="http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2010/11/math-how-many-golf-balls-would-fit-in-a-school-bus.html">Via</a> Alexander Russo at This Week in Education </em></p>
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