Question

Find the surface area of the regular hexgonal prism. ​

Answer 1

Check the picture below.

so the hexagonal prism is really just a hexagon with six 8x27 rectangles, let's simply get the area of all and sum them up.

`\textit{area of a regular polygon}\\\\ A=\cfrac{1}{2}ap ~~ \begin{cases} p=perimeter\\ a=apothem\\[-0.5em] \hrulefill\\ p=\stackrel{8* 6}{48}\\ a=6.9 \end{cases}\implies A=\cfrac{1}{2}(6.9)(48)\implies A=165.6 \\\\[-0.35em] ~\dotfill\\\\ \stackrel{ \textit{\LARGE Areas} }{\stackrel{ \textit{six rectangles} }{(6)(8)(27)}~~ + ~~\stackrel{ \textit{hexgonal face} }{165.6}}\implies 1296+165.6\implies \text{\LARGE 1461.6}~in^2`