7.H.1Surface area of prisms01/05
Surface area of prisms.
A right rectangular prism (box)
length 8 in, width 5 in, height 3 in
Step01of 05
Surface areais the total area of every outer face. For a box, that's six rectangles arranged in three matching pairs: top & bottom, front & back, left & right.
Strategy: think of "unfolding" the box into a flat NET, compute each face, then add them up.