Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms

What shape is this?

• Cylinder
• Rectangular Prism
• Cube
• Cone

What is surface area?

• The measure of the amount of space inside of a solid figure

• The sum of all the areas of all the shapes that cover the object

• The distance around a figure.

• The space take by a two-dimensional figure.

Which example requires you to find the surface area?

• Finding out how much water will fill a cylinder
• Finding out how much wrapping paper is needed to cover a present
• Finding the amount a container can hold
• Finding out how much wood is needed to build a fence in your back yard.

To calculate the amount of cardboard needed to make a cereal box, which of the following should you find: 

• Area
• Perimenter
• Surface Area
• Volume

Find the total surface area of the prism.

• 48 square inches
• 64 square inches
• 88 square inches
• 76 square inches

What is the surface area of this figure?

• 200 cm ²
• 800 cm ²
• 400 cm ²
• 100 cm ²

Find the surface area of the prism.

• 48 square inches
• 64 square inches
• 88 square inches
• 76 square inches

Find the lateral surface area of the shape shown? Use the left and right sides as the bases.

• 119.28 in²

• 102.48 in²

• 84 in²

• 101.76 in2

What is the surface area of this figure?

• 3000 cm ²
• 164 cm ²
• 236 cm ²
• 328 cm ²

Find the Surface Area

• 556 cm²
• 278 cm²
• 680 cm²
• 340 cm²