How Do You Find the Lateral and Surface Areas of a Triangular Prism?

How Do You Find the Lateral and Surface Areas of a Triangular Prism?

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Want to know how the find the lateral and surface areas of a triangular prism? Then check out this tutorial! You'll see how to apply each formula to the given information to find the lateral area and surface area. Take a look!

Keywords:

  • triangular prism
  • prism
  • lateral area
  • surface area
  • solve
  • formula
  • triangle
  • base
  • lateral face
  • area
  • congruent bases

Background Tutorials

  • Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.

      • How Do You Find the Perimeter of a Shape?How Do You Find the Perimeter of a Shape?

      How Do You Find the Perimeter of a Shape?

      Ever had someone come up to you on the street, hand you a shape, and ask you to find the perimeter of that shape? Watch this tutorial, and next time that happens you'll be ready!

  • Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations; given two congruent figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the congruence between them.

      • What Does Congruent Mean?What Does Congruent Mean?

      What Does Congruent Mean?

      If two figures have the same size and shape, then they are congruent. The term congruent is often used to describe figures like this. In this tutorial, take a look at the term congruent!

  • Use informal arguments to establish facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles, about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, and the angle-angle criterion for similarity of triangles.

      • What is a Triangle?What is a Triangle?

      What is a Triangle?

      You can't learn everything about math without dealing with triangles. Did you know that there are different types of triangles? Check out this tutorial, and learn about triangles and their different types!

Further Exploration

  • Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.