Cylinder Surface Area and Volume
My daughter is doing homework and is stuck on a question. I think she is looking into it too deeply and is confusing herself because of this.
A cylindrical storage container has a height of 8 inches, a surface area of 1,130.97 in.² and a volume of 2,513.27 in.³ Find the surface area and volume of a similar container whose height is 6 inches.
So maybe I am looking at this wrong. It's been so long since I have done anything like this that I can't recall the way to do it.
My first thought is that since the containers are similar except for height, I am thinking that the smaller container is actually 3/4 the height, surface area and volume of the original 8 inch container.
So... am I correct or am I trying to over simplify this?