Question

The surface area of a cube is 864 in2. What is the area of one face of this cube?

Answer 1

there's your cube.

Answer 2

You're given the total area, and that is \(\sf A = 864~ in^2\)

Answer 3

Now since you're looking for only ONE side (face) of the cube, you would have to divide by 6, since a cube has 6 sides.

Answer 4

That gives you the area of 1 side.