DSQ: Calculating the surface area of a cylinder
Practice Questions
GMAT Quantitative Reasoning › DSQ: Calculating the surface area of a cylinder
Of Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2, which, if either, has the greater surface area?
Statement 1: The radius of the bases of Cylinder 1 is equal to the height of Cylinder 2.
Statement 2: The radius of the bases of Cylinder 2 is equal to the height of Cylinder 1.
In the above figure, a cylinder is inscribed inside a cube. 
Statement 1: Arc 
Statement 2: Arc 
The city of Wilsonville has a small cylindrical water tank in which it keeps an emergency water supply. Give its surface area, to the nearest hundred square feet.
Statement 1: The water tank holds about 37,700 cubic feet of water.
Statement 2: About ten and three fourths gallons of paint, which gets about 350 square feet of coverage per gallon can, will need to be used to paint the tank completely.
Give the surface area of a cylinder.
Statement 1: If the height is added to the radius of a base, the sum is twenty.
Statement 2: If the height is added to the diameter of a base, the sum is thirty.
Give the surface area of a cylinder.
Statement 1: The circumference of each base is 
Statement 2: The height is four greater than the diameter of each base.
In the above figure, a cylinder is inscribed inside a cube. What is the surface area of the cylinder?
Statement 1: The volume of the cube is 729.
Statement 2: The surface area of the cube is 486.
Give the surface area of a cylinder.
Statement 1: The circumference of each base is 
Statement 2: Each base has radius 7.
Of Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2, which, if either, has the greater surface area?
Statement 1: The sum of the height of Cylinder 1 and the radius of one of its bases is equal to the sum of the height of Cylinder 2 and the radius of one of its bases.
Statement 2: The bases of Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2 have the same cicumference.
Of Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2, which, if either, has the greater surface area?
Statement 1: Cylinder 1 has bases with radius twice those of the bases of Cylinder 2.
Statement 2: The height of Cylinder 1 is half that of Cylinder 2.
Of Cylinder 1 and Cylinder 2, which, if either, has the greater lateral area?
Statement 1: The cylinders have the same volume.
Statement 2: The product of the height of Cylinder 1 and the area of its base is equal to the product of the height of Cylinder 2 and the area of its base.