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SURFACE AREA: Prisms & Cylinders

Don't forget to refer to your DATA SHEET (see link at top of home page) for useful surface area formulae.

 

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You can also figure out the SA of a rectangular prism by finding out the area of all the faces and adding them together.  This is shown below:

You can also figure out the SA of a triangular prism by finding out the area of all the faces and adding them together.  This is shown below:

Derivation of the formula for the SA of a cylinder:

A video showing how to figure out the SA of a cylinder: