Surface Area of a Prism
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- To find the surface area of a prism, we just add up all the faces' areas. However, this may be tricky to visualize at first, so let's take an equilateral triangular prism first …
By Eric Zhang
- The nice thing about calculating the surface area of a prism, as compared to that of shapes like cylinders/spheres, is that a prism is composed entirely of flat, polygonal faces…
By Max Schindler
- Quick prism surface area formula reference sheet (It's hidden so you don't ruin the other explanations for yourself -- you should read those first if you haven't already!) Recta…
By Max Schindler
Problems 3
- Find the surface area of an equilateral triangular prism with height 14 and triangle side length 6.
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