There must be a typo in this question, "Why does the formula for finding the surface area of arectangular prism is helpful?" What does that even mean?
Assuming you mean a rectangular prism, you get the smallest surface area if the prism is a cube. You can calculate the required length of side to get that volume; then, based on that, the corresponding surface area.
You mean a rectangular prism? Like a block of lego? Then you just need to work out the surface area of the four sides, which will be two pairs of identical rectangles. So; ((L*W)+(W*D))*2 L ______|______ / /| /____________/ |-D | | | | | / |____________|/ \ W
A prism can have a triangular cross-section with a rectangular base
Assuming you mean a regular prism, 3 rectangular sides and 2 triangular sides, you need only know how to calculate the area for rectangles and triangles and then sum the values for the 5 individual faces.
There must be a typo in this question, "Why does the formula for finding the surface area of arectangular prism is helpful?" What does that even mean?
Assuming you mean a rectangular prism, you get the smallest surface area if the prism is a cube. You can calculate the required length of side to get that volume; then, based on that, the corresponding surface area.
You mean a rectangular prism? Like a block of lego? Then you just need to work out the surface area of the four sides, which will be two pairs of identical rectangles. So; ((L*W)+(W*D))*2 L ______|______ / /| /____________/ |-D | | | | | / |____________|/ \ W
Did you mean vertices? A rectangular prism would have 8 vertices.
if you mean surface area, the area of the base multiplied by the height
The formula for a rectangle is height x width (A=ab)Since you said surface area, I'm pretty sure that you might mean a rectangular prism. To get this, you would need to find the area of each "rectangle side". To do this, you use the first formula, using height (a), width (b), and depth (c). The formula for theSurface Area of a Rectangular Prism = 2ab + 2bc + 2ac
A prism can have a triangular cross-section with a rectangular base
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A rectangular prism has six faces because it has 4 sides and two bases. It also has eight vertices and 12 edges.
rectangular prism
Assuming you mean a regular prism, 3 rectangular sides and 2 triangular sides, you need only know how to calculate the area for rectangles and triangles and then sum the values for the 5 individual faces.
A rectangular prism has three dimension: its length, width and height. A flat and long prism is one whose height is small and length is large.