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A cylinder has a diameter of 10 decimeters. What is the length of the curved surface?

78.5 decimeters
31.4 decimeters
62.8 decimeters
15.7 decimeters

User Gabriel Mazetto
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The length of the curved surface is the circumfrence of a circle with radius r = 10/2 = 5 decimeters.

Length of curved surface = 2π x 5 = 10π ≈ 31.4 decimeters.
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