SOLUTION: how do you find the surface area of a cylinder?

Question 565835: how do you find the surface area of a cylinder?
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Imagine cutting the cylinder between the two bases and flattening it out. Then you have a rectangle and two base circles. The rectangle has height 'h' and width the circumference of the circle/base. Let the radius of the base be 'r.' The surface area is 2(pi)r^2+2(pi)rh.
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