I am sure I was wrong. I was relying on you to correct me being it is your project and since you did not give the answer. The "beans" comment is a light hearted way of saying; "I do not know."
"A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume.
The mathematician carefully measured the diameter and evaluated a triple integral.
The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement.
The
engineer looked up the model and serial numbers in his red-rubber-ball table."
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Thank you, I did not know this metaphor!
Very convenient to get out of an awkward situation and resourceful!
The right answer :
"..The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement...." A method discovered 2500 years ago by Archimedes.