Efficient Cutting printable sheet
Cylindrical containers, like the tin cans used to package some food, can be made by using two circles for the ends, and a rectangle which wraps round to form the body.
To make cylinders of varying sizes, the three pieces can be cut from a single rectangle of flat sheet in several ways.
For example:
You can assume that the dimensions of an A4 sheet of paper are 21cm and 29.6cm
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