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How can you find the surface area of a composite solid made up of prisms ? (Help)

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Oh, this is easy. For any prism, you find the surface area by finding the are of all the sides. I will post all surface area formulas here, for reference
Cube:



Surface area = 6 × a2




Right circular cylinder:



Surface area = 2 × pi × r2 + 2 × pi × r × h

pi = 3.14
h is the height
r is the radius


Rectangular prism:



Surface area = 2 × l × w + 2 × l × h + 2 × w × h




l is the length
w is the width
h is the height


Sphere:



Surface area = 4 × pi × r2

pi = 3.14
r is the radius


Right circular cone:



Surface area = pi × r2 + pi × r ×( √(h2 + r2))

pi = 3.14
r is the radius
h is the height
l is the slant height


Right square pyramid:



Surface area = s2 + 2 × s × l

s is the length of the base
h is the height
l is the slant height
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