In Shaker communities of the past, cisterns were built to store water as shown in the photo above. They were built as a cylinder with a hemisphere on each end partially buried underground. The diameter was 10 feet. The water was collected from large barn roofs. Even today, cisterns are still used extensively. Using the Shaker design described above, calculate the size of a cistern so that it could hold all the collected water from a 90 ft by 150 ft barn roof given a 20 inch rainfall. How many gallons will your cistern hold?
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