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A shuttle cock used for playing badminton has the shape of the combination of

(A) a cylinder and a sphere  
(B) a cylinder and a hemisphere
(C) a sphere and a cone  
(D) frustum of a cone and a hemisphere

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Answer (D) frustum of a cone and a hemisphere

Solution.
Cylinder – A cylinder is a three dimensional solid that has two parallel based joined by a curved surface at a fixed distance. 

Sphere – The set of all points in thee dimensional space lying the same distance from a given point

Similarly hemisphere 

Cone – A cone is a three dimensional geometrical shape that tappers smoothly from a flat base to a point called the apex or vertex.

Similarly frustum of cone

Hence we conclude that shuttle cock which is used for playing badminton has the shape of combination of frustum of a cone and hemisphere. 

 

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