Surface area of Prisms

Find the surface area of this figure.

• 148 cm²
• 120 cm²

What is surface area?

• The measure of the amount of space inside of a solid figure
• The sum of all the areas of all the shapes that cover the object

Find the total surface area of the prism.

• 48 square inches
• 64 square inches
• 88 square inches
• 76 square inches

Find the surface area of the triangular prism.

• 228 cm²

• 170 cm²

• 304 cm²

• 328 cm

What is the total surface area of the triangular prism shown? 

• 468 in²
• 540 in²
• 576 in²
• 700 in²

In the equation:
 Ph + 2B, why are you multiplying by 2?

• Just because it's the formula.
• It is multiplying B by 2 because there are two bases.
• It's just the number 2.

Sara is going to wrap a birthday present for her niece. She has a single piece of wrapping paper with an area of 400 in².

Sara has 3 gift boxes she can use. The boxes are shown below with their measurements.

Select the box or boxes that Sara would be able to use for the gift that she could completely wrap with her piece of wrapping paper.

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8.7B