Surface area of a triangular prism

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How to find the surface area of a triangular prism. This video finds the surface area of a triangular prism by finding the lateral area and adding this to the base areas.

Video Guide
0:06 How do you know which side of the triangular prism is the base?
0:17 Determining which type of prism the shape is
0:35 Highlight the two bases of the triangular prism
0:48 Review the surface area formula
1:27 Use the formula Pxh to find the lateral area
2:14 Answer to the lateral area of a triangular prism
2:18 Find the base area
2:50 1/2 base x height t find the base area of the triangular prism
3:32 Add the lateral area and two base areas for total surface area

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Finally I found a video with someone who actually knows what they are doing!!!!

[a_johnson]

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[keiji]

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[zzey]

Damn this really making it even more complicated damn, all you do is draw this format:

Front:
Back:

Bottom:

Left:
Right:

Slope:

Find out the sums of them and then add them all together

[joyce]

This method  is  easier  than I have learnt. I always multiply 16x10, 12x10, 20x10 then find the area of both triangles and add all the results together. I got my GCSE exam  tomorrow.Thanks a lot.

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