Coca-Cola wants to minimize the production costs of its cans. Assuming the cans are the shape of a cylinder and that each can needs to hold a volume of about 370 cm3 of Coca-Cola. Use the methods that we worked on in section 3.7 to find the dimensions of the cylinder that minimizes the amount of material used to manufacture a coca-cola can.

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Coca-Cola wants to minimize the production costs of its cans. Assuming the cans are the shape of a cylinder and that each can needs to hold a volume of about 370 cm3 of Coca-Cola. Use the methods that we worked on in section 3.7 to find the dimensions of the cylinder that minimizes the amount of material used to manufacture a coca-cola can.

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