The simulation tool could be a coin flip, with heads up representing a girl and tails up representing a boy. One trial would require flipping the coin twice. One table would show the outcome of two coin tosses as tally marks, and indicate whether the results were boy-boy, boy-girl, or girl-girl.
To solve for the surface area of this cylinder, start by using the cylinder surface area formula, which is . Next, plug in the information given from the problem into the formula, which will look like . Then, simplify the equation, which will look like . The next step is to simplify the equation further, which will look like . The final answer is .