What is the shape of the cross section taken parallel to the base of a cylinder?

Circle
Rectangle
Triangle
Ellipse

Question

What is the shape of the cross section taken parallel to the base of a cylinder?

Circle
 Rectangle
 Triangle
 Ellipse

itsmehjay · Answer

If the cross section is parallel, as in horizontally, what shape would it looks like cut horizontally?

kekeman · Answer

A circle?

xhikari · Answer

basically what jay was saying but im just trying to help... if the face of the cylinder is on a table leaving the other face upwards and cylinders have a circular base then when you cut it horizontally (side to side) what will it look like?

itsmehjay · Answer

@kekeman wrote:

A circle?

i agree ;o

itsmehjay · Answer

@xhikari wrote:

basically what jay was saying but im just trying to help... if the face of the cylinder is on a table leaving the other face upwards and cylinders have a circular base then when you cut it horizontally (side to side) what will it look like?

exactly and cutting it parallel to the base would look like a circle so you're right @kekeman