Homework Help: math

Posted by Aneras on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 3:35pm.

A right cylinder has a total surface area of 471 square centimeters. The radius of the cylinder is 5 centimeters. What is the height in centimeters of the cylinder?

math - PsyDAG, Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 10:59am
The circular area on the top = Pi r^2. The same with the bottom.

Pi = 3.1416

Surface area = 2Pi r^2 * h

Insert the known values and solve for h.

I hope this helps.

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