Question

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A right rectangular prism is 4 inches long, 3 inches wide, and 6 inches tall. What are the area and perimeter of a cross section that is parallel to the base of the prism?
The area of the cross section is square inches, and its perimeter is inches.

Answer 1

The first part is asking for cross section area

If you spilt the prism youll get something like this


If you want to find the area of the cross section, youre basically taking the area of the rectangle (use length x width)

Answer 2

For the second part:

Surface area of a rectangular prism is
\(A = 2wl + 2lh + 2hw\)

w = width
l = length
h = heigh

Substitute the values they gave you into the equation and you can solve for the surface area

Answer 3

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