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Multiply side x side. For example, if you are measuring for new carpet for a room that is 15 feet long and 12 feet wide, and you need to know how much carpet to buy, multiply 15 x 12, which will give you the total surface area.

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However, there are different formulae for other shapes like circles or ellipses, or for triangles, or parallelograms and trapeziums,; or their 3-d equivalents.

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