Question

How can you find the surface area of prisms?

Answer 1

Answer:

I'll list the equations for some types of prisms, hope this helps.

• Cube: $S=6s^2$, where S = surface area and s = side measure.

• General prism: $S=2B+L$, where B is the area of one base.

• Right rectangular: $S=2lw+2lh+2wh$, where l is length, w is width, and h is height.

• Pyramid: $S=(\frac{1}{2})lP+B$, where P is perimeter of the base, B is the base area, and l is slant height.

Honorable mentions:

Sphere: $S=4\pi{r}^2$

Cone: $S=L+B=\pi{rl}+\pi{r}^2$, where r is radius of the circular base

Cylinder: $S=L+2B, \mbox{ or } S=2\pi{rh}+2\pi{r}^2$, where r is radius, and h is height.

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