The map above shows where people live in the United States. Areas that are darker blue are areas where people live close together. Areas that are lighter colors are places where people live farther apart. As a geographer, if you were to study where people live and why they choose to live in these places, which of the six essential elements of geography would you be using?

The surface area of this solid is:

b. 107

Explanation:

To understand this answer we need to analyze it. First, we have different geometric figures composing the solid. A pyramid and a rectangular prism. We need to obtain the surface, not the volume so we need to obtain the area of all the figures composing the pyramid and the prism without the hidden part of the pyramid base. We need to obtain the following areas:

2 rectangles with the following measures= W=2 L= 8

1 rectangle with the following measures= W=3 L=8

1 rectangle with the following measures= W=3 L 5

2 rectangles with the following measures= W=2 L=3

4 triangles with the following measures= B=3 H=4

Following the formula for the rectangles W x L we obtain a total area for them of 83 square meters.

Following the formula for the triangles b x h / 2 we obtain the following area: 24 square meters. Then we add both and obtain 107 square meters

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