CHAPTER Surface Area - School District #35
CHAPTER Surface Area - School District #35
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>