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A square with an area of 169 cm^2 is rotated to form a cylinder. What is the height of the cylinder?

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A square with an area of 169 cm^2 is rotated to form a cylinder. What is the height-example-1
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Answer:

13 cm

Explanation:

Area of the square is
169 \:\:cm^(2)

The square is rotated to form a cylinder. Now, we first need to find the side of the square, the cylinder is formed by rotating along its side.

Now area of square
169 \:\:cm^(2)

We know that area of square is
\text{side}*\text{side}

So,
\text{side}*\text{side}=169


\text{side}* \text{side}=13*13


\text{side}=13 \:\text{cm}

Now, as the cylinder is formed by rotating along its length, and we know that all the sides of a square is equal.

So, one side becomes the height of the cylinder and the other becomes the circumference.

Hence, the height of the cylinder is 13 cm.

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