Practice with Surface Areas of Prisms
How do you find the Perimeter of a shape?
What units do we use for Surface Area?
In the equation for Surface Area, what does the B represent?
Define Surface Area
What is the difference between Surface Area and Volume?

Find the Perimeter of the Base
Find the SA of the figure using
(Hint: you need units squared, use ^2)


Classify this figure
What is the converted value?
What is the Classification for this figure?
What does this part of the Prism represent?
What does the 15 cm represent for this prism?
Which Formula do we use to calculate B, the area of the base of the prism?
How would you classify this shape?
The measure of this side is 7 ft - 4 ft = 3 ft.
What do you immediately notice about this value?
What is the converted value ?
What do we call this shape?
The measure of this side is 8 ft - 3 ft = 5 ft
To find the area of the base, B,
The measure of 10 ft represents
Find the perimeter, P, of the base
Find the Surface Area of the Prism using
(Hint: you need units squared, use ^2)
What is the Perimeter?
What is the Height?
What is the Area of the Base? Round to 2 decimal places. (Hint: you need units squared, use ^2)
What is the Surface Area of the Figure? Round to 2 decimal places. (Hint: you will need units squared, use ^2)