We need to find the area of the prism given in the following image:
You need to add the surfaces of ALL rectangles in the image (recall that the area of a rectangle is : Base x Height)
So for this prism we have:
FOUR rectangles that measure 5 x 2
and also TWO small squares of area 2 x 2
So we need to select all the formulas they give you that read like the addition of the two above:
(5x2) + (5x2) + (5x2) + (5x2) + (2x2) + (2x2)
It can also be written as:
2 (5x2) + 2 (5x2) + 2 (2x2)
