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Example Questions
Example Question #12 : Cylinders
Find the surface area of the given cylinder.
To find the surface area of the cylinder, first find the areas of the bases:
Next, find the lateral surface area, which is a rectangle:
Add the two together to get the equation to find the surface area of a cylinder:
Plug in the given height and radius to find the surface area.
Make sure to round to places after the decimal point.
Example Question #1052 : Intermediate Geometry
The above diagram shows a sphere inscribed inside a cylinder.
The sphere has a surface area of 100. Give the surface area of the cylinder.
Let be the radius of the sphere. Then the radius of the base of the cylinder is also , and the height of the cylinder is .
The surface area of the cylinder is
which, after substituting, is
The surface area of the sphere is
Therefore, the ratio of the former to the latter is
and
That is, the cylinder has surface area that of the sphere. Therefore, this area is
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Example Question #11 : Cylinders
How many gallon cans of paint must be purchased in order to put a single coat of paint over the surface of a cylindrical water tank if the tank is 75 feet high and 25 feet in radius, and each gallon can of paint covers 350 square feet?
Assume that there is a side, a top, and a bottom to be painted.
First, use the formula to find the surface area of the tank in feet.
Now divide by 350, remembering to round up.
45 cans of paint need to be purchased.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
Given a cylinder with radius of 5cm and height of 10cm, what is the volume of the cylinder?
The volume of a cylinder is given by
Notice how the formula for the volume is defined as the area of a circle times the lateral height of the cylinder. It is as if we are taking little paper circles and stacking them one-by-one until we fill up the entire container.
Plugging in the numbers we get:
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
The volume of a cylinder is , what is its height?
Any positive rational number
Any positive real number
Any positive real number
Because both the radius and height are unspecified, any real number could be it's height as long as an matching radius is also chosen. There is no restriction on the height or radius being rational.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
What is the volume of a hollow cylinder with an outer diameter of , an inner diameter of and a length of ?
The general formula for the volume of a hollow cylinder is given by where is the outer radius, is the inner radius, and is the length.
The question gives diameters and we need to convert them to radii by cutting the diameters in half. Remember, . So the equation to solve becomes:
or
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
Find the volume of the following right cylinder:
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The correct answer is .
The formula for volume of a cylinder is
and
Example Question #121 : Solid Geometry
If a cylinder has a radius, , of 2 inches and a height, , of 5 inches, what is the total surface area of the cylinder?
The total surface area will be equal to the area of the two bases added to the area of the outer surface of the cylinder. If "unwrapped" the area of the outer surface is simply a rectangle with the height of the cylinder and a base equal to the circumference of the cylinder base. We can use these relationships to find a formula for the total area of the cylinder.
Use the given radius and height to solve for the final area.
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
A right cylinder has a diameter of and a height of . What is the volume of this cylinder?
The formula to find the volume of a cylinder is: , where is the radius of the cylinder and is the height of the cylinder.
A good point to start in this kind of a formula-based problem is to ask "What information do I have?" and "What information is missing that I need?"
In this case, the problem provides us with the height of the cylinder and its diameter. We have the component of the equation, but we're missing the component. Can we find out ? The answer is yes! Radius is half of diameter. So in this case, because the diameter is , the radius must be .
Now that we have and , we are ready to solve for the volume after substituting in those values.
Example Question #7 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
You have just bought a farm that includes a storage silo. You want to find the volume for the 20 foot tall silo in the shape of a cylinder. You measure the circumference of the silo, it is listed below.
Leave answer in terms of .
To find the volume of a cylinder we need to find the area of the base and then multiply that by the height. The base is in the shape of a circle so the formula is given below:
To find the radius of the base, we use what was found from the measurement for circumference of the base. We set the formula for circumference equal to the measured circumference given in the problem.
From this we can solve to find that the radius =5. Which we can plug into the original Volume formula. With the given height of 20 ft.
Simplifying will give us the volume of the cylinder.