You are decorating a cylindrical hat box to give to your grandmother as a gift. You want to paste family photos onto the curved part of the box. The height of the box is 5 inches and the radius is 6 inches. If none of the photos overlap, what is the area of photographs you need? Use three point one four for pi.

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You are decorating a cylindrical hat box to give to your grandmother as a gift. You want to paste family photos onto the curved part of the box. The height of the box is 5 inches and the radius is 6 inches. If none of the photos overlap, what is the area of photographs you need? Use three point one four  for pi.

anonymous · Answer

find the circumference and multiply it by the height. I believe $$c=r ^{\pi2}$$

anonymous · Answer

$$r \times ^{\pi2}$$

anonymous · Answer

The area of the curved part of a cylinder is equal to 
$$A=Ch=2\pi*r*h$$In this case, you know the radius and the height, and you can plug in for the area.