ok still dont get surface area?!!!??!?!?!?!?

Question

how do you do it im kinda blonde (not really) so explain this 2 meh easily ok plz and thnx!!!

like dont make it 2 confusing ok and spell soome words out plz and thank u!!!

-peace love n capn crunch michaela cota

Answer 1

You need to write a specific example so people can answer it. Asking how to do surface area is *way* too general of a question. What do you want to know about it?

Answer 2

An example. Carpeting for industrial and office use is sold in the form of tiles, shaped as squares, one foot on a side. (They have an adhesive backing so that when laid down they will stay put.) Sam's Realty office is 15 feet wide, and 20 feet long. How many tiles must be bought to do the floor? You can do 15 rows of 20 tiles each, or 300 tiles. Since each tile is one square foot, the total area is 300 square feet. This illustrates the general principle that the area is the length times the width of a rectangle. With a bit of imagination, you can apply the idea to other shapes; it is okay to cut the tiles with a snip to deal with things other than rectangles.

Answer 3

Think of it like this:

You have a swimming pool. It is 50 feet wide and 100 feet long. There is a tarp that goes over the swimming pool. It is also 50 feet wide and 100 feet long. The surface area would be the total amound of space that the tarp covers. You would find this by multiplying the width (50) and the length (100). So it would be 5,000 feet square.

Or think of it like this.

You have a bunch of wooden cubes. Each side is one inch long. So each side is one inch by one inch. You have a sqaure piece of cardboard that is 10 square inches (each side is 10 inches long). So the total area would be the width (10) times the length (10), which is 100 inches squared. So if the total area is 100 sq. inches, how many 1 sq. inch blocks could you fit on it? (100 blocks)

Answer 4

The surface area is the area of the outside of a 3-D object.
For example, the surface area of a cube is the area of each of its faces, in other words you add up the area of the 6 squares.
Everything else is just a stretched out or curved version of that. You are going to have different formulas for different objects (spheres, cylinders, cones, etc.), but you have that with areas and perimeters of 2-D objects.

Good luck.

Answer 5

You can think of surface area as basically the amount of material you would need to cover said surface. For example, to cover a cube where each side has length 1, you would need to cover all 6 faces, each of which has an area of 1. Thus the surface area would be 6.

Answer 6

surface area is just that. the area on the surface. the surface area is the area viewed from above. found by multipling the lenght by the width