jessetalexis

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What is the lateral area, in square inches, of the regular triangular prism shown in the picture?

Subhotosh Khan

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What is the lateral area, in square inches, of the regular triangular prism shown in the picture?

What is the definition of Lateral Surface?

Gamedev3

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okayyy well i dunno what lateral area is so i googled this def "The sum of the areas of the lateral (vertical) faces of a cylinder, cone, frustum or the like. , so it seems u just need the total area of those 3, long vertical sides, should be easy enough: just area of vertical side(and u know the dimentions of the base) times 3

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nasi112

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It is a regular triangular prism. This means all triangle sides are equal. Therefore, it would be so easy to find the area of two triangles, and and the area of three rectangles.

Subhotosh Khan

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okayyy well i dunno what lateral area is so i googled this def "The sum of the areas of the lateral (vertical) faces of a cylinder, cone, frustum or the like. , so it seems u just need the total area of those 3, long vertical sides, should be easy enough: just area of vertical side(and u know the dimentions of the base) times 3
the three rectangles that make up the lateral surface of the given solid - What are their dimensions?