I guess it depends on the kind of shoe box. Let's take a regular shoe box with six rectangular sides. Let the dimensions be a x b x c The surface area is 2(ab + ac + bc) Intuitively, you have three different dimensions, a, b, and c. So each panel has area of ab, ac, or bc. Then if you look at opposite sides of the box, you see two opposite sides are the same, so you multiply the sum by two.
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sa=2lw+2lh+2wh
The surface area of a box, which is a cuboid, depends on its length, width and height. A cube is a special type of cuboid in which the length , width and height are all the same.
Add all the area of six faces of the box in gerneral the surface area of a cube shape box is 6a2 and of cuboid is 2(lb x bh x hl)
Alex wants to know how much gift wrap to use to wrap a box. Is that surface,area, volume
if you want the outside area just calculate the area of one face of the cube H x L and multiply by six. double this amount if you want the internal surfaces added to this such as if you had a cardboard box.