The net of a rectangular prism is shown below. 28624

What is the surface area of the rectangular prism?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Using a net to find the surface area of a rectangular prism

Finding the areas of each of the rectangles and squares of the net of a rectangular prism and adding up those areas gives the surface area or total surface area of the prism.

For example, if the length of one side of the cube 4 units then the area of one its face is 4 × 4 = 16 square units. From the net, we can see that there are six equal faces and so we get the total surface area is 6 × 16 = 96 square units.

Surface Area of a Rectangular Prism using Nets

A rectangular prism or cuboid is formed by folding a net as shown −

Cuboid

We can see from the net that there are two rectangles with dimensions 3 cm by 6 cm, two rectangles with dimensions 2 cm by 6 cm and two rectangles with dimensions 2 cm by 3 cm. The total surface area is then

2 × 3 × 6 + 2 × 2 × 6 + 2 × 2 × 3 = 72 cm2

Example 1:

Find the surface area of the given rectangular prism in square cm.

Rectangular Prism in Square cm

Solution

Step 1:

Using net, the surface area of a rectangular prism

= 2lw+wh+lh; l = 6 ; w = 5; h = 3

Step 2:

Surface area of given prism = 26×5+6×3+3×5

= 230+18+15

= 126 square cm

Example 2:

Find the surface area of the given rectangular prism in square cm.

Rectangular Prism Square cm

Solution

Step 1:

Using net, the surface area of a rectangular prism

= 2lw+wh+lh; l = 5; w = 6; h = 4

Step 2:

Surface area of given prism = 25×6+5×4+6×4

= 230+20+24

= 148 square cm

the correct answer is 1: 2

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