Consider a wedding cake of infinite height, each layer of which is a right circular cylinder of

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Consider a wedding cake of infinite height, each layer of which is a right circular cylinder of height 1. The bottom layer of the cake has a radius of 1, the second layer has a radius of 1/2, the third layer has a radius of 1/3, and the nth layer has a radius of 1/n (see figure). 

a. To determine how much frosting is needed to cover the cake, find the area of the lateral (vertical) sides of the wedding cake. What is the area of the horizontal surfaces of the cake?

b. Determine the volume of the cake.

c. Comment on your answers to parts (a) and (b).

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Calculus Early Transcendentals

ISBN: 978-0321947345

2nd edition

Authors: William L. Briggs, Lyle Cochran, Bernard Gillett

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