Determine by how much will the silk stretches

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Orb spiders make silk with a typical diameter of 0.15 millimeter.

a) A typical large orb spider has a mass of 0.50 kilogram. If this spider suspends itself from a single 12 centimeter long strand of silk, determine by how much will the silk stretches?

b) Find the maximum weight that a single thread of this silk could support?

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