A peanut company pays $.02 per square inch of label used on its containers. Each container has a radius of 1.5 inches and a height of 2.5 inches. If the label covers the lateral area of the container, how much would it cost to produce 150,000 labels?
1 Answer
Nov 23, 2017
150,000 labels would cost
Explanation:
The lateral surface area of a cylinder is given by
Substituting in what we know
each label costs
the price per square inch * the area of each label in square inches
Substituting in what we know
150,000 labels would cost