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Isolating Height in the Cylinder Surface Area Formula

An industrial packaging designer uses the cylinder surface area formula, S=2πr2+2πrhS = 2\pi r^2 + 2\pi rh, to customize storage containers. To make it easier to determine the required height hh for different orders, they need to rearrange this formula to solve for hh.

Describe the step-by-step process of solving the surface area formula for the height hh. Specifically:

  1. State the first algebraic operation required to begin isolating the term containing hh, and write the resulting equation after this step.
  2. State the second algebraic operation required to fully isolate hh, and write the final formula for hh.

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