Surface Area of Rectangle Prisms

How do you find the lateral surface area of a Prism?

Shelby wants to wrap a present in a box for Sarah. The top and bottom of the box is 8 in. by 3 in., the sides are both 3 in. by 2 in. and the front and back are 8 in. by 2 in. How much wrapping paper will Chloe need to wrap the present? Is this looking for Lateral or Total surface area?

• Lateral

• Total

What is the Surface Area of a figure?

• 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 solid figure.

Find the total surface area of the prism.

• 48 square inches

• 64 square inches

• 88 square inches

• 76 square inches

Find the surface area of the rectangular prism.

• 140 in.²

• 83 in.²

• 166 in. ²

• 100 in.²

Find the total surface area of the prism.

• 48 square inches

• 64 square inches

• 88 square inches

• 76 square inches

Find the total surface area ?

• 10.30cm²

• 130cm³

• 144cm²

• 130cm²

Find the Surface Area

• 556 cm²

• 278 cm²

• 680 cm²

• 340 cm²

What is surface area?

• Inside of the object

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

• Something Mrs. MacGregor made up?

• Surface area is what you get when you boil unicorn tears. 

Find the surface area of the figure formed by the net with 2 cm ,  3 cm, and 4 cm edges below.

• 40 cm²

• 48 cm²

• 52 cm²

• 62 cm ²