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📅 MIT Science Bowl Invitational 2020🎓 HS🔄 Round 12#️⃣ Question 1🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

A laser beam with wavelength 500 nanometers is directed at a hair, producing a diffraction pattern on a screen located 2 meters behind the hair. If the width of the central maximum of the diffraction pattern is 2 centimeters, what is the width of the hair in meters?

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