Question

I have quite a few questions and would like someone to stay with me the whole time. Please help!

Answer 1

so what is the question?

Answer 2

Calculate the surface area of the figures in the picture above

Answer 3

do you know what an area is?

Answer 4

I have an equation but I don't know how to fill it in. Heres the equation SA=BA+1/2ps

Answer 5

equation for what?

Answer 6

number 2

Answer 7

what is the ps at the end of that equation

Answer 8

I have no idea about number 1

Answer 9

number 2

Answer 10

well, how about let us do number 1 first

Answer 11

ok

Answer 12

I am going to assume that you know how to multiply and divide

Answer 13

yes

Answer 14

so there are formulas for basic figures such as rectangle, square and triangle.

1) to find the area of a square, we multiply the distance of its two sides. but since any square would have an equal length of sides, we just square it.
2) for rectangle, it is similar to square, however, one way to distinguish it from a square is that one of its sides has longer length than the other. we assign these sides as length and width. the bottom line is that we multiply the distance of the length to the distance of the width.
3) to obtain the area of a triangle is to multiply the distance of its base and the distance of its height then divide it by two. if you observe carefully, a triangle is either half a rectangle or half a square - that is where the division of 2 comes from, since it is half :)