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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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