Question

Which of the following is a situation where finding the lateral area would be appropriate?
Determining how many bricks are needed to build a pyramid with a brick floor.
Determining how much water is needed to fill a rectangular tank.
Determining how much paint is needed to paint the walls of your bedroom.
Determining how much stucco is needed to stucco the walls and roof of a building.

Answer 1

I thought was the paint one

Answer 2

lateral is side wall areas

Answer 3

walls and roof would seem to imply surface area

Answer 4

dosen't lateral refer to the cross surface area?

Answer 5

hard to say, in geometry class its the surface area - base areas

Answer 6

the lateral area of a cylindar is then the 2pir h stuff

Answer 7

Lateral area means only the sides of a figure. Not counting the bases

Answer 8

o then walls

Answer 9

So, the one that says the paint ont he walls

Answer 10

yep

Answer 11

Gotcha! thanks!