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Radius of the Golf ball is: 0.84 inches(which is standard)...

Calculate the volume of the ball...by formula.. [4*3.14*(.84)^3]/3.

Calculate the volume of school bus by using formula, length*breadth*height.

Now Calculate the volume of a seat by using formula,

volume of Base+volume of Back +volume of all legs(i.e. cylinder).

Use careful mensuration while Calculating Effective Empty volume----

Effective Empty volume = (total volume of bus- volume of ALL the seats) of Bus.

Now to find the total number of balls:

Total number of Balls = (Effective Empty Volume / Volume of a golf ball)

Note: Golf balls are rough spheres. Two adjacent golf balls make contact at only one point on their surface - not across the ENTIRE surfaces. Therefore, the volume occupied by a pile (or a schoolbus full) of golf balls is GREATER than the sum of the volume of each individual ball.

We might approxmiate the "EFFECTIVE" volume of one golf ball, therefore, by calculating the volume of a simple cube with side lengths the same as the diameter of the golf ball.

The number of golf balls that fits inside a bus therefore will be FEWER than that calculated by the method above, because the "EFFECTIVE" volume of adjacent golf balls is GREATER than the sum of the balls themselves.

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