SOLUTION: find the surface area of a cone with a radius of 3 inches and a slant height of 5 inches.

Question 24616: find the surface area of a cone with a radius of 3 inches and a slant height
of 5 inches.
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The surface area of a right circular cone is given by:
Where: R is the radius and s is the slant height.

square inches. If you use , then,
square inches.
If you include the area of the base, then you add:

Total surface area:

If , then,
square inches.
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