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Explain why cant a cross section be a sphere

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We know that of all the shapes, a sphere has the smallest surface area for its volume. The intersection of a plane figure with a sphere is a circle. All cross-sections of a sphere are circles. In the above figure, we can see, if a plane cuts the sphere at different angles, the cross-sections we get are circles only.
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