Cylinders are like prisms. You find the base area, and you have 2 bases. The difference consist of having bases in the cylinder are circles, whereas that in the prisms are polygons. Explore and play with this interactive geometric applet to find the lateral area, surface area, and volume of the given right cylinder. You need manipulate "r", and "h" to view different instances of the problem.
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