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Geometry Difficulty 2.9 Junior Find the answer

A long piece of paper 55 cm wide is made into a roll for cash registers by wrapping it 600600 times around a cardboard tube of diameter 22 cm,
forming a roll 1010 cm in diameter. Approximate the length of the paper in meters.
(Pretend the paper forms 600600 concentric circles with diameters evenly spaced from 22 cm to 1010 cm.)

Pick one

Solution

Notice (by imagining unfolding the roll), that the length of the paper is equal to the sum of the circumferences of the concentric circles, which is π\pi times the sum of the diameters. Now the, the diameters form an arithmetic series with first term 22, last term 1010, and 600600 terms in total, so using the formula 12n(a+l)\frac{1}{2}n(a+l), the sum is 300×12=3600300 \times 12 = 3600, so the length is 3600π3600\pi centimetres, or 36π36\pi metres, which is answer A\boxed{\text{A}}.

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