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Find the surface area of a cube with a side length of 5 centimeters.

Find the surface area of a cube with a side length of 5 centimeters.-example-1
User Amintabar
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Explanation:

step 1. a cube had 6 sides

step 2. each side is a square

step 3. the area of each side is 5x5 = 25cm^2

step 4. the surface area of the cube is 25x6 = 150cm^2.

User Chris Dennett
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The 6 faces of a cube have equal are.

Each face has are of 5*5=25 because they are all squares.

Now we just multiply by 6

25*6=150 centimeters cubed.

Done!

User Harshad Prajapati
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