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CHAPTER Surface Area - School District #35

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Name: _____________________________________________________<br />

Date: ______________<br />

1. Write the steps that you could use to find the surface area of a prism.<br />

2. Find the surface area of the rectangular prism to the nearest tenth of a<br />

square centimetre (1 decimal place).<br />

front or back<br />

top or bottom<br />

18 cm<br />

ends<br />

10 cm<br />

5.5 cm<br />

cm<br />

cm<br />

cm<br />

cm<br />

cm<br />

cm<br />

A = l × w<br />

= ×<br />

=<br />

<strong>Area</strong> of front and back:<br />

A = × 2<br />

=<br />

A = l × w<br />

= ×<br />

=<br />

<strong>Area</strong> of top and bottom:<br />

A = × 2<br />

=<br />

A = ×<br />

= ×<br />

=<br />

<strong>Area</strong> of 2 ends:<br />

A = ×<br />

=<br />

<strong>Surface</strong> <strong>Area</strong> = (area of front and back) + (area of top and bottom) + (area of ends)<br />

= + +<br />

= cm 2<br />

The surface area of the right rectangular prism is cm 2 .<br />

250 MHR ● Chapter 5: <strong>Surface</strong> <strong>Area</strong>

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