How do you find surface area of a square?

Question

I need to find the surface area of a box.. AND QUICK!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I assume you mean the surface area of a rectangular prism (a.k.a. box). A square is a 2-D object with equal dimensions of width and length and no height . But you have a 3-D object with three different dimensions.

Anyway, you can figure the area of the top and bottom:
Top = W x L
Bottom = W x L
Top and Bottom = 2 ( W x L )

And the area of the sides:
Left = H x W
Right = H x W
Left and Right = 2 ( H x W )

And the area of the front and back:
Front = L x H
Back = L x H
Front and Back = 2 ( L x H )

So you add them all up and you get:
Total surface area = 2 ( W x L + H x W + L x H )

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Answer 2

To find the surface area of the box, assume the length, width, and height are represented by L, W, and H, respectively.

Two of the sides have an area of L*W
Two more sides have an area of L*H
And the last two sides have an area of W*H

Assuming that this is a closed cube, the surface area would be:
2(L*W) + 2(L*H) + 2(W*H)

If the cube is not closed, most likely the top, then one of the sides would be ommited from the final calculation, most likely one of the L*W.

Answer 3

If "a" be the length of sides of a square,then the total surface area of the square is given by the formula
Area=6a^2

Answer 4

of a square box? it is a cube. since it has 6 sides, take the side and square it to find the area of one side of the cube and u can times 6 to find the total surface area. eg if the length is 5cm, the surface area is (5x5)x6=150cm^2

Answer 5

surface area of a square =6*side*side
eg side=7
.;sa=6*7*7
=294cm sq

Answer 6

the surface area of a box is 6 * Side² (for uniform cube)

for a non-uniform cube youre going to have to calculate it lik this:
2 * Side A * Side B + 2* side B * Side C + 2 * Side C * Side A

Answer 7

A square box ?
.. = (Length x height x width) x 6
.. Any box: = (Length x height x width of each side) and add all 6 side areas together.

Answer 8

There are 2 ways to do this:
You can take a side to the 3rd power of it is a true cube
You can do Hieght x Width x Length

These 2 are basically the same things, but which ever one is easier

hope i helped!

Answer 9

find the area of each of the 6 sides and add them up