Finding surface area of a sphere

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Can someone tell me how to find the surface area of a sphere when given the Area? :confused: thanks
 
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bblueblob said:
Can someone tell me how to find the surface area of a sphere when given the Area? :confused: thanks

I think you means volume, not area, right?
The volume of a sphere can be calculated by:
[tex]V = \frac{4}{3} \pi r ^ 3[/tex]
where r is its radius.
Now given its volume, can you find its radius?
And after finding its radius, can you find its surface area?
Hint: The surface area is:
[tex]A = 4 \pi r ^ 2[/tex]
where r is the sphere's radius.
Can you go from here? :)
 
Well, actually, the volume of the sphere is 0 in any possible metric space, in which we can define such an object.

So linking 0 with [itex]4\pi r^2[/itex] is quite easy, if you assume the sphere to have a zero radius.

Daniel.

P.S. Most of this post is not a joke.