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What solid is generated when the right triangle is rotated about the line?

a) triangular pyramid
b) cone
c) cylinder
d) triangular prism

What solid is generated when the right triangle is rotated about the line? a) triangular-example-1
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Your answer is a cone. B
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Answer:

B) Cone

Explanation:

Given a right triangle being rotated about the line.

without loss of generality, assume the left corner vertex is the origin and the horizontal line is x axis

WE have the line equation of the form y =mx which is rotated about x axis.

The top vertex forms a circle when rotated about x axis. The origin becomes invariant, in other words, origin remains a point even after rotation.

So we get a figure with top a point and base a circle symmetrical about middle line

This is nothing but a cone.

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