2017 AMC 10 A

In order to solve this problem, we must first visualize what the region contained looks like. We know that, in a three dimensional plane, the region consisting of all points within units of a point would be a sphere with radius . However, we need to find the region containing all points within units of a segment. It can be seen that our region is a cylinder with two hemispheres on either end. We know the volume of our region, so we set up the following equation (the volume of our cylinder the volume of our two hemispheres will equal ): , where is equal to the length of our line segment. Solving, we find that .

Because this is just a cylinder and "half spheres", and the radius is , the volume of the half spheres is . Since we also know that the volume of this whole thing is , we do to get as the area of the cylinder. Thus the height is over the base, or , .