Surface area would be measured in square inches or square feet. This is the area of a flat surface, like a desk top. Volume is the inside area, like inside a balloon. This would be measured in cubic inches or feet (inches x inches x inches).
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On a polygon, the surface area is the total area that each face occupies. The volume is the total cubic space that the polygon occupies.
As the volume of a cell grows, the surface area grows but not as quickly.
The surface-area-to-volume ratio may be calculated as follows: -- Find the surface area of the shape. -- Find the volume of the shape. -- Divide the surface area by the volume. The quotient is the surface-area-to-volume ratio.
To tackle this you first need to know the equations for both volume and surface area. The surface area of a cube is 6x2 where x is the side length. The volume of the cube is x3. Thus x is the cube root of the volume. We can substitute this in to the surface area equation and say that the surface area of a cube is 6volume2/3 This can also be rearranged to say that the volume of the cube is (the surface area/6)1.5
the formulas for lateral area dont include the figures bases. surface area does.
You measure or calculate the surface area; you measure or calculate the volume and then you divide the first by the second. The surface areas and volumes will, obviously, depend on the shape.