The shortest length (circumference) of the string is 18.84cm.
What is the circumference?
The circumference is that certain length that requires to enclose a circle with respective of a fixed length known as radius. If radius of cylinder be r, then the circumference will be 2πr.
How to calculate the shortest length of the string to wound the cylinder once?
The required length of the string is the circumference of the base of the cylinder.
The radius of the cylinder is 3cm.
Taking π=3.14, the circumference will be : 2*3.14*3cm
=18.84cm
The shortest length of the string is 18.84cm.
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