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If a right circular cone is intersected by a plane only at its vertex, as in the picture below, what shape is produced?

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Answer:

Apex: answer- A point

Explanation:


User Srinivas Rampelli
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A right circular cone can be intersected by some plane to produce circle, ellipse, hyperbola depending upon where the plane is crossing the cone.

But if the plane crosses at the vertex. Just one point is crossed.

Hence resulting shape will be a "point".

User Waleed
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