The radius of a cylinder is halved and the height is tripled. What is the area of the curved surface when compared to the same area previously?
Answer:
1.5 times
- The curved surface area of a cylinder is 2πrh.
- If the radius is halved and the height is tripled.
- Putting this into the formula, we see that the curved surface area becomes:
2π ×
× r × 3 × h1 2
= 1.5(2πrh)
= 1.5 times.