The student council memebers are making decorative labels to cover 20 identical empty coffee cans for charity drive. each label will cover the entire lateral surface area of a can. which is the closest to the lateral surface coffee can

Explanation:

The image attached shows the dimensions of the coffe cans considered for this question.

The figure is a cylinder with dimensions:

Thus, to find the lateral surface of a coffe can, you use the formula for the lateral area of a cylinder:

Where, LA is the lateral area, r is the radius, and h is the height.

Substituting the dimensions given in the figure, you get:

To multiply, first convert the mixed numbers into improper fractions:

Now, you can multiply:

3

step-by-step explanation:

divide 13.5 by 9 to get the scale factor. it equals 1.5

2 * 1.5 = 3