This an incredible problem—incredible because it seems to lack sufficient data for a solution. A cylindrical hole six inches long has been drilled straight through the center of a solid sphere. What is the volume remaining in the sphere?
Source: Gardner, Martin. My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math). Dover Publications.
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