SOLUTION: How many square feet of fencing material do you need to make an open cylinder 4 feet across and 4 feet high?

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Question 179829: How many square feet of fencing material do you need to make an open cylinder 4 feet across and 4 feet high?
Answer by nerdybill(7384)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Basically, the area is circumference of cylinder times height.
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Circumference = (pi)D
where
pi = 3.14
D = diameter
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Circumference = (3.14)4 = 12.56
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Area = 12.56(4) = 50.24 square feet

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