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Given information

Given:

A thin silver wire has length  when the temperature is  And the coefficient of thermal expansion is

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

We will use the differential to estimate the actual change in length . when  decreases from to that is, when .

We have 

 

since cm

 

   

   

 

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