Questions about AREAS,surface areas??!!?

Question

How do we measure area(also knows as surface area) and how is it different from distance or length??

and last how do you calculate the surface area of as cylinder??

Thankss!!!!

Answer 1

Well, surface area measures the amount of area the shape has. Length or distance measure a side on that shape.

Surface Area of a cylinder = Areas of top and bottom +Area of the side

Surface Area = 2(Area of top) + (perimeter of top)* height

Surface Area = 2(pi r 2) + (2 pi r)* h

In words, the easiest way is to think of a can. The surface area is the areas of all the parts needed to cover the can. That's the top, the bottom, and the paper label that wraps around the middle.

You can find the area of the top (or the bottom). That's the formula for area of a circle (pi r2). Since there is both a top and a bottom, that gets multiplied by two.

The side is like the label of the can. If you peel it off and lay it flat it will be a rectangle. The area of a rectangle is the product of the two sides. One side is the height of the can, the other side is the perimeter of the circle, since the label wraps once around the can. So the area of the rectangle is (2 pi r)* h.

Add those two parts together and you have the formula for the surface area of a cylinder.

Surface Area = 2(pi r 2) + (2 pi r)* h

Answer 2

area is the measure of the inside of an oblect. Not the sides of it.