Imagine that you are an engineer for a soda company, and you are tasked with finding the most economical shape for its aluminum cans You are given a set of constraints: the can must hold a volume of liquid and be a cylindrical shape of height hand radius r, and you need to minimize the cost of the metal required to make the can
Look at a variety of aluminum cans of different sizes from the supermarket. Which models from problems a–c best approximate the shapes of the cans? Are the cans actually perfect cylinders? Are there other assumptions about the manufacture of the cans that we should take into account? Do a little bit of research, and write a one-page response to answer some of these questions by comparing our models to the actual dimensions used.