Surface Area of Solids
Learn how to find the surface area of cubes, cuboids, and prisms. Let’s get started! 🚀

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🛎️ What is Surface Area?
- Surface area is the total area of all the faces of a solid.
- To find it, calculate the area of each face and add them together.
🛎️ Surface Area of Cubes and Cuboids
- A cuboid has 6 faces, arranged in 3 identical pairs.
- A cube has 6 identical square faces.
🛎️ Calculating the Surface Area of a Cuboid
- A cuboid has 3 pairs of identical faces: top and bottom, front and back, and left and right.
- Find the area of one face in each pair, multiply each by 2, then add them together.
🛎️ Calculating the Surface Area of a Cuboid
- A prism has two identical ends and several rectangular side faces.
- Find the area of every face, then add them all together to get the surface area.
Practice Questions
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What is the surface area of a cube with a side length of 4 cm?
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The surface area of a cube is . For a side length of 4 cm: .
What is the area of its top face?

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The area of the top face is calculated as length \times width. For this cuboid: .
A cube has a surface area of . What is the length of one side?
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The surface area of a cube is . Divide 150 by 6 to get 25, then take the square root: .
A cuboid has a length of 12 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a height of 5 cm. What is its total surface area?
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The total surface area of a cuboid is . Here: .
A cuboid has a length of 15 cm, a width of 10 cm, and a height of 8 cm. What is its total surface area?
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The total surface area of a cuboid is . Here: .
Consider the cuboid below. Excluding its top face, what is its surface area?

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The total surface area is . Excluding the top face: .
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