The volume of a sphere is given by the formula 4/3 *pi*r^3 and the surface area is given by the formula 4*pi*r^2. If you know the volume of the sphere you can solve for the radius, then you can plug the resulting value into the surface area formula. For example, suppose I knew that the volume of a sphere was 25 cubic meters:
Set 25 equal to the voume formula:
4/3*pi*r^3 = 25
multiply both sides by 3/4 and divide both sides by pi:
r^3=pi*75/4
take the cube root of both sides:
r=(pi*75/4)^(1/3)
Now plug r into my formula for surface area:
4*pi*r^2 = 4*pi*((pi*75/4)^(1/3))^2
And I probably want a decimal approximation for the surface area, that is, I probably want to get rid of the pis and the fractional exponent, so I can plug 4*pi*((pi*75/4)^(1/3))^2 into a calculator to get 190.24385. Then a sphere with a volume of 25 cubic meters has a surface area of 190.24385 square meters.
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Given a sphere of radius r, Surface area = 4{pi}r2 Volume = (4/3){pi}r3
A sphere
the sphere has the smallest surface area for any given volume.
depends on the shape... if its a sphere or a prism or what. You'll get different answers because they have different surface area to volume ratios. Sphere will give you the biggest volume for a given surface area.
Given the surface area, where S=surface area, the formula for finding the volume isV = √(S / 4pi)