alleryStart learning →A sphere has how many planes of symmetry?
AInfinitely many
BExactly nine
CExactly three
DExactly one
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Infinitely many
Every plane through the centre of a sphere splits it into mirror halves, so there are infinitely many.
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