The Giant Soup Can of Hornby Island

Some of the terminology used here is how my SA taught the Math 8 class as a way to be consistent with the terminology. I used what I was comfortable with during my practicum here in this question.

As a question, there were a couple of things that I needed to research, the average dimensions of a bike, as it was the primary thing that I was given to figure out a scale. Another thing that I needed to figure out was the amount of water required to put out a house fire.

After calculating the dimensions of the bike and converting that to real life using a scale of 1cm to 26.25 cm, the volume of the tank came out to be about 54.5 L. Since we only see 80% of the can, the volume is about 43.6 L. Doing my research, I discovered that an average housefire requires 1291 L. Thus, our tank does not have enough water for a house fire. However, we assume the tank is only what we here in the photo. There might be more underground.

After my short practicum and experiencing many things, I see this question as a way for students to help with their math communications. Rather than the traditional approach of asking the students to solve a question, here we will ask students to "formally" prove to me the volume of the water tank. All they get is the average size of a bike and the image to use as a scale. We will ask students to organize their work in a much more excellent way than I have done. And justify how they concluded, such as the scale and how they got their volume.

A way we can extend this problem is: Given that the recommended size for a fire department's water tank should be about 10,000 L, can you draw what the rest would look like? Provide its dimensions.