Surface area of triangular prisms

To better understand, let's look at a simple example. In the following drawing, we have a right triangular prism: 

The area of each base of the right triangular prism is $6$ cm².

The lateral sides of the prism have areas of $8$ cm, $10$ cm, $12$ cm.

The surface area of this prism can be calculated using these data as follows:

$S=6\times2+8+10+12=42$

So, the surface area of the prism is $42$ cm². 

If you are interested in learning how to calculate areas of other geometric shapes, you can enter one of the following articles:

• How is the area of a trapezoid calculated?
• How to calculate the area of a triangle
• The area of the parallelogram: what is it and how is it calculated?
• Circular area
• How is the area of a rhombus calculated?
• How to calculate the area of a regular hexagon?
• Area of the rectangle
• How to calculate the area of an orthohedron

and in case you are looking for more information about Triangular Prism, you might be interested in the following articles:

• Right triangular prism
• The bases of the right triangular prism
• The lateral faces of the prism
• Lateral edges of a prism
• Height of the prism
• The volume of the prism
• Surface area of triangular prisms

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