How Do You Find the Surface Area of a Sphere?

How Do You Find the Surface Area of a Sphere?

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Trying to find the surface area of a sphere? Already know the radius? Then plug that value into the formula for the surface area of a sphere and solve to get the answer! This tutorial shows you how!

Keywords:

  • sphere
  • surface area
  • cylinder
  • relationship between cylinder and sphere

Background Tutorials

  • Order of Operations

      • What's the Order of Operations?What's the Order of Operations?

      What's the Order of Operations?

      Check out this tutorial where you'll see exactly what order you need to follow when you simplify expressions. You'll also see what happens when you don't follow these rules, and you'll find out why order of operations is so important!

  • Algebraic Expressions

      • What is a Variable?What is a Variable?

      What is a Variable?

      You can't do algebra without working with variables, but variables can be confusing. If you've ever wondered what variables are, then this tutorial is for you!

  • Exploring Irrational Numbers

      • What's an Irrational Number?What's an Irrational Number?

      What's an Irrational Number?

      Is an irrational number just a way to describe a number that's lost its mind? Not really. :) An irrational number is simply a number that cannot be written as a fraction. Check out the definition, learn an important property of these special numbers, and take a look at some examples of irrational numbers.

Further Exploration

  • Surface Areas of Cylinders