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Can someone help me solve this question :explain how you would measure the external diameter of a measuring cylinder

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Answer:

use a rope and tie it around the cylinder and make such you notice the two meeting points of your rope, which you use as a measuring tool, then you took the marked rope and you stretch it on a tape measure and there you get your reading from the tape measure.

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Answer:

you can use a vernier calliper

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or you can calculate the circumference of the cylinder then, Then divide that amount by π

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measure the diameter divide it by two(2)

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