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Viola says that she can find the surface area of a

rectangular prism by finding the area of one face and
multiplying by 6. When is this true? When is this not true?
Use diagrams to explain your answer.

Viola says that she can find the surface area of a rectangular prism by finding the-example-1

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Answer:

This is only true with a cube

Explanation:

Only a cube has 6 equal faces of equal size.

I can't really put a diagram here so i hope that explanation helped!

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