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Draw a cylinder.
The cross section of the cake is a rectangle.
The cake can be modeled by the following cylinder.
We cut it in half vertically and get the following figure.
Notice that AB and CD are diameters of the circles in the bases. Therefore, they are parallel and congruent. Furthermore, BC and AD are the height of the cylinder. This tells us that BC and AD are also parallel and congruent. Thus, ABCD is a parallelogram. Since AD⊥ AB, we can conclude that the cross section is a rectangle.