Question

it gives me a right triangular prism with the height of 24 a length of 48 a width of 17 and a hypotenuse of 29.9. Find the surface area.

Answer 1

You know that your triangular prism has 5 faces. You need to calculate the area for each of these faces to get surface area. so you take and find the area of the two triangles
(24)(17)(.5)

Answer 2

Since you have two faces that are the same triangle you can multiply it by 2

Answer 3

then you use the equation (L)(W) to find the area of the other faces

Answer 4

(17)(48)

Answer 5

(29.9)(48)

Answer 6

and (24)(48)

Answer 7

then you just add up all of these areas

Answer 8

does that make sense?

Answer 9

hold on let me draw it for you just to see what im looking at ok

Answer 10

yep