Question

What is the surface area of a square prism with sides that measure 8 units?

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Answer 1

A square prism mhm

since they didn't give us a height, we can assume that all sides are squares which means that it's basically a cube

the surface area of a cube = 6 * side^2

and the side is equal to 8

so surface area = 6 * 8^2

so what is 8^2
that's basically 8 * 8 which is the area of one side of the cube
and then multiply it by 6 since there is 6 sides to a cube

and that would be the surface area for the square prism