SOLUTION: A cylindrical soup can is 4 inches tall and has a radius of 1 1/5inches. What is the area of a label that will completely cover the side of the can, with no overlap (not including

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Question 152828: A cylindrical soup can is 4 inches tall and has a radius of 1 1/5inches. What is the area of a label that will completely cover the side of the can, with no overlap (not including the top and bottom)
Answer by orca(409)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The label is a rectangle.
its width is 4 inches.
its length is the same as the perimeter of the top or bottom circles. it can be found by:

So the length is 2*3.14*(1+1/5)=7.536 inches
Thus the area of the label is:
4*7.536=30.144 square inches.

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