What is the difference between lateral surface area and total surface area? If there are different formulas for each, please list them.

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Evan Levesque · Answer 1 · 2017-05-10T22:49:24+0000

Lateral surface area is the area that can be seen from the solid, while total surface area includes the region that can't be seen on the solid. For example in cylinder: LSA = pi*r*l while, TSA = 2pi*r^2 + pi*r*l .

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