Estimate by how much will the silk stretch

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Orb spiders make silk with a typical diameter of 0.15 .A typical large orb spider has a mass of 0.50 .

a) If this spider suspends itself from a single 12-cm-long strand of silk, by how much will the silk stretch?

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

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