Question

what is the cross section parallel to the base of a cone?
sphere
ellipse
sphere
triangle circle

Answer 1

a line

Answer 2

Hmm think about it like this...you have an ice cream cone

If you cut it perfectly in half horizontally....and then looked at it from the bottom...what shape would you see?

Answer 3

a cone? a triangle?

Answer 4

Looking at it from the bottom....

Answer 5

circle

Answer 6

There you go.

Answer 7

it can't be a circle though

Answer 8

Correct^

Answer 9

Oh why?

Answer 10

someone told me "diagonal cross section of a cylinder" was a circle

Answer 11

it can't be be both

Answer 12

?

Answer 13

what is the diagonal cross section of a cylinder then?

Answer 14

So because a circle can come out of a cylinder, it must not be able to come out of a cone?

Answer 15

idk! i'm confused. i can't use circle 2 times

Answer 16

The cylinder diagonal thingy is not a circle.

Answer 17

then what is it