Thread: Help to a 5th grader please!

Could someone please explane surface area?

Originally Posted by -Classified Muffin-

Could someone please explane surface area?

Again consider a cube.
There are six faces all of which are squares. If you add up all the areas on each face you get the surface area!

Another example. You have a pyramid. Its faces are triangles, if you find the area of all the triangles TOGETHER you would have the surface area!

Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker

Again consider a cube.
There are six faces all of which are squares. If you add up all the areas on each face you get the surface area!

Another example. You have a pyramid. Its faces are triangles, if you find the area of all the triangles TOGETHER you would have the surface area!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!