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    Mass of a rubber stopper being swung in a horizontal circle

    To be clear, the centripetal acceleration is equal to the tension on the string, the tension in the string is equal to the force due to the gravity on the hanging weight. Does a mass of 0.1945 kg or 194.5 g for the rubber stopper makes sense? Which implies it is as massive as the weight.
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    Mass of a rubber stopper being swung in a horizontal circle

    I assume you know the value of the weight you used that is at the end of the string. The radial force, is of course, equal to this weight ##w##. So you can write $$r = \frac{w}{4\pi^2 m} T^2$$. The slope you calculated is equal to ##\frac{w}{4\pi^2 m}## where you can get the mass you're looking for.
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