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QWhat is the slide rule?

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  • A A mechanical doll ✔ ✖
  • B A calculating instrument for solving problems in proportion, trigonometry, multiplication, and division ✔ ✖
  • C A hand-operated analog computer for doing addition and subtraction ✔ ✖
  • D A device used for predicting tides in shallow waters ✔ ✖
Correct Answer: Option B

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Explanation: The slide rule is a hand-operated analog computer for doing multiplication and division. As slide rule development progressed, added scales provided reciprocals, squares and square roots, cubes and cube roots, as well as transcendental functions such as logarithms and exponentials, circular and hyperbolic trigonometry, and other functions.

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