Question

Help !!
The tent shown below is on display at a toy store.

A tent frame composed of a rectangular prism with a triangular prism on top. The width of the rectangular prism is 6 feet, its length is 7 feet and its height is 3 feet. The height of the triangular prism is 4 feet, its inclined edge is 5 feet and and the base edges aligned with edges of the top surface of the rectangular prism.

What is the total surface area of the tent in square feet? Assume no material is used on the bottom of the tent.

214

172

207

187

Answer 1

one way to do it is to find the area of each rectangular face and each triangular face and add them up

Answer 2

ok isee buh how do u do tht ?

Answer 3

well look at the front face

that's 6 ft by 3 ft

so that area is 6*3 = 18 square feet

Answer 4

the back face is the same, so that's also 18 square feet

Answer 5

do the same for each face, then add them all up

Answer 6

so u add 18 + 18 ?

Answer 7

that's part of it, but you add on more of course since there are more faces

Answer 8

and 5*4 wich is 20 ?

Answer 9

so add 20 +20 ?

Answer 10

idk how you're finding a face that's 5 by 4

Answer 11

I don't see any face like that

Answer 12

its on the top of the house

Answer 13

yeah but that slanted face isn't 5 x 4

Answer 14

4*4 then ?

Answer 15

no

Answer 16

because they have it in both sides ?

Answer 17

first I found the front face which is this face here