SOLUTION: When drawing the net of a cylinder, how do you calculate how long the rectangle will be?

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Question 184889: When drawing the net of a cylinder, how do you calculate how long the rectangle will be?
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One dimension is the height of the cylinder, and the other is the circumference of the base, or where r is the radius of the base.


John