SOLUTION: a hollow metal cylinder has a height of 12cm and a diameter of 9cm. What is the length of the longest piece of straight wire that can fit inside the cylinder?

Question 1110547: a hollow metal cylinder has a height of 12cm and a diameter of 9cm. What is the length of the longest piece of straight wire that can fit inside the cylinder?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a hollow metal cylinder has a height of 12cm and a diameter of 9cm. What is the length of the longest piece of straight wire that can fit inside the cylinder?
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Sketch the cylinder and label the height and diameter of the base.
You have a right triangle with height = 12, base = 9, and hypotenuse = h
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Solve for "h"::
h = sqrt[12^2+9^2] = 25
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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