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If a right triangle is rotated around one of its legs for 360 degrees, what three dimensional shape is produced?

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Answer:

The shape of a cone

Explanation:

If we rotate the right triangle for 360 degrees around one leg, we will have a shape of a cone (a conical shape).

the leg we choose to rotate around will be the height of the cone.

The other leg will be the radius of the cone's base.

And the hypotenusa of the right triangle will be the slant height of the cone.

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