Unroll a cylinder and you get two circles and a rectangle. The rectangle is as long as the circumference and as tall as the height, which is where the 2 pi r h comes from.
Find the surface area of a cylinder with radius 3 and height 7
The two circles give 2 times 9 pi, which is 18 pi.
The side unrolls to 6 pi by 7, which is 42 pi.
The answer is 60π.
Where students go wrong
Counting only one circle. A closed cylinder has a lid as well as a base, so the circle area is doubled.
Also called cylinder surface area or lateral area of a cylinder.
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Counting only one circle. A closed cylinder has a lid as well as a base, so the circle area is doubled.