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Is the lateral area of a cylinder a triangle?

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For a right circular cylinder of radius r and height h, the lateral area is the area of the side surface of the cylinder: A = 2πrh. For a pyramid, the lateral surface area is the sum of the areas of all of the triangular faces but excluding the area of the base.

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