Tommy says to his teacher, "Finding surface area of rectangular prisms is easy! Just find the area of one face, and multiply by six, because there are six faces on every prism."

Write Tommy a note explaining to him why his method is not fail-proof. When and why is he going to run into errors?

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Tommy says to his teacher, "Finding surface area of rectangular prisms is easy! Just find the area of one face, and multiply by six, because there are six faces on every prism."

Write Tommy a note explaining to him why his method is not fail-proof. When and why is he going to run into errors?

anonymous · Answer

Well, derp - the only instance in which Tommy is right is when the rectangular prism is a cube.

anonymous · Answer

Otherwise - the sides aren't equal and Tommy gets an F for failure.

anonymous · Answer

im not a derp

anonymous · Answer

Then Tommy goes home with a bad report card and when his daddy finishes drinking and finds out about Tommy's report card...

anonymous · Answer

wow whole story

anonymous · Answer

you must have parent problems

anonymous · Answer

I didn't mean to imply you were. 

derp

   1. 
used as a substitute for speech regarded as meaningless or stupid, or to comment on a foolish or stupid action.

    2. 
foolishness or stupidity.

anonymous · Answer

But anyway - so when his father finds out about it, Tommy's going to get it. 
And when tommy's going cry himself to sleep that night he will remember that the surface area is only 6*the area of one side only with cubes. 

The end.

anonymous · Answer

No, I really don't have parents but I like imagining how it's like to have them based on what others have told me.