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📅 2023 MIT Science Bowl High School Invitational🎓 HS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Question 18🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

The resistivity of copper is approximately 1.5 x 10^-8 ohm meters. Expressing your answer in scientific notation to one significant figure, what is the resistance in ohms of a cylindrical copper wire with length 20 centimeters and radius 4 millimeters?

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