5. A vessel is in the form of an inverted cone. Its height is 8 cm and the radius of its top, which is open, is 5 cm. It is filled with water up to the brim. When lead shots, each of which is a sphere of radius 0.5 cm are dropped into the vessel, one-fourth of the water flows out. Find the number of lead shots dropped in the vessel.
According to the question :
Water spilled from the container = Volume of lead balls.
Let us assume the number of lead balls to be n.
Thus the equation becomes :
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Hence the number of lead shots dropped are 100.