Question

The lateral area of a cube is 256 square kilometers. What is its side length?

4 km
8 km
24 km
32 km

Answer 1

Is lateral area the same as the surface area of the "outside" of the cube?

Answer 2

thats one big cube !!

Answer 3

apparently lateral area of a cube is the area of 4 of the faces of the cube,.

Answer 4

thus 4 squares have a total area of 256 square kilometres thus each one is .....

Answer 5

Thank you so much!!! :)

Answer 6

cool, I learnt somethong too. I had not heard of lateral area before . Thanks

Answer 7

So how do you solve it, when you never did something like this? Wow :)