Question

The surface area of a cube is 486 ft2. What is the area of one face of this cube?

Answer 1

a cube has 6 equal sides c:

so one face would be 486/6=?

Answer 2

Auxuris is correct. The surface area of a cube is equal to the sum of the surface areas of its sides. Since a cube has six sides, you need to divide the surface area of the entire cube by six in order to get the surface area of one of its sides.

Answer 3

so the answer is 81