Riley is helping decorate the school for a special event. She wants to wrap paper streamers around some of the handrails of the stairway. She marks off one cylindrical section of a handrail, as shown, as a way to estimate how much of the streamers she will need.

If the handrail has a radius of 2.5 centimeters and the section has a height of 20 centimeters, approximately what is the area of the handrail to be covered with the paper streamer? Use 3.14 for and round to the nearest hundredth.
A.
392.50 square centimeters
B.
333.63 square centimeters
C.
353.25 square centimeters
D.
314.00 square centimeters

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