Surface Area: Prisms & Cylinders

Interactive Tutorial • Practice Problems • Speed Quiz

What is Surface Area? 🤔

  **Surface Area (SA)** is the total area of all the faces, or surfaces, of a three-dimensional object. It's like finding the amount of wrapping paper needed to cover a box.

  To find the surface area of a shape, you first need to identify all of its faces and then calculate the area of each one. Then you just add up all the areas!

 
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Video: Prisms & Cylinders 🎬

Watch this video to visualize how to calculate the surface area of prisms and cylinders.

 
 
 

Practice Problems

Calculate the surface area for each problem. Use 3.14 for $\pi$ and round to two decimal places.

 
   
1) Rectangular Prism
   

Length=5, Width=3, Height=4

       
   
 
 
   
2) Square Prism
   

Side=6, Height=10

       
   
 
 
   
3) Cylinder
   

r=3, h=7

       
   
 
 
   
4) Cylinder
   

d=8, h=5

       
   
 

⚡ Surface Area Speed Quiz

       
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