For many figures, there are known formulae - you can use one of those. Otherwise, if it has flat faces, you can calculate the area of each of its faces, and add them all up.
Otherwise, if it is curved (e.g., a sphere), you can divide the surface up into lots of small pieces, of which each will be approximately flat, and add them up. This is (basically) the process called "integration".
You need to find the area of each two dimensional surface on the figure. Do you have a specific figure in mind?
NO. This is the way to get the volume of a prism, not the surface area of any three-dimensional figure. To find the surface area of a three-dimensional figure, you must find the area of each of its faces and then add the side-areas together.
a solid figure
The answer is surface area.
TRUE: To find the surface area of a three dimensional figure, you must find the area of each of its faces and then add them together.
The surface area of a space figure is the total area of all the faces of the figure
False.To find the surface area of a three-dimensional figure, find the area of the faces and add them together.
Its total surface area.
... face and add them together.
Surface area is all the areas for a 3 figure. Area is for only on side of a 3d figure
First, find the area of each 2-D face of the figure, then add those up.
The term area is generally reserved for a two-dimensional polygon, but surface area is the term of the area of the different surfaces on a three-dimensional figure---the faces on the object. So no, they are not the same.