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Rough estimate: 249k (249 thousand)

The amount of tennis balls is roughly equal to V_bus (volume of the bus) / V_ball (volume of one tennis ball) * packing factor.

Take the following assumptions:

1.) a double-decker bus has a volume of 75 m^3

2.) a tennis ball has a diamater of 6.6 cm (radius = 0.033 m)

3.) the packing factor (which accounts for bus interior ~15% and imperfect packing of balls ~35% lost in "voids between balls" due to spherical shape) is equal to (1-0.15-0.35) = 0.5

Therefore the amount of tennis balls  =  75 / (4/3pi0.033^3) * 0.5 = ~249115

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BruceZ

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2y ago
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Wayne Egli

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2y ago
All good until the end. 75m3 volume is close enough (77m3 is standard). However, spherical objects nest into each other at about a 15% to 20% space savings. So, the answer is around 300,000. I have to determine packing volume as part of my job :)
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Mukesh P

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2y ago
I think we should divide the Volume of a double-decker bus by / Volume of the Tennis ball to get the accurate answer

Roughly 200000 rounded up if you calculate it regularly I would say 40 could fit in 1 seat and there is probably 70 seats estimated in each row so 40 x 140 is 5600 so do that times 5600 x 20 because it’s half of the tennis balls would be 112000 so we will do 70 of the seats x the 70 other seats would be 4900 x 20 is 98000 and 112000 + 98000 is 210000 so we will add 5600 onto 4900 which is 10500 subtract 10500 from 21000 is is 199950

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Damon Ly

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2y ago
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Guesstimate: 290,000. That's based on a diameter of 6.6 cm. per ball, and dimensions of 2.25m wide, 3.5m high, and 10m long for the bus.

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Wiki User

12y ago
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It's 273 916,854495, so u can just round it up to 273 917.

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Toxic_ Epiic

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