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If bamboo, which can grow 88 cm in a day, is grown for five days and then used to make a simple pendulum, what will be the pendulum’s period?

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Answer: 3.766 seconds

Step-by-step explanation:


$$ Total length of bamboo $=4 * 88 \mathrm{~cm}=352 \mathrm{~cm}=3.52 \mathrm{~m}$\\Pendulum's period $=2 \pi \sqrt{(L)/(g)}\\ $=2\pi \sqrt{(3.52)/(9.8)} \\=3.766 \mathrm{sec}$$

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