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A closed cylinder has a circular base of radius r. The height of the cylinder is h.

Given that the surface area of the cylinder is 60cm2, find the maximum volume of the cylinder.


If you open out the cylinder, you see it is made from two circles and a rectangle, whose width is the circumference of the circular top.


The solution can be given as

2aaπ

for square-free a∈N. Find the value of a.