A skyscraper is a rectangular prism as tall as 398 meters. The bases are squares with sides of 62 meters. What is the surface area of the skyscraper?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-21T04:20:44

#106392# meters squared.

Surface area of a rectangular prism or cuboid is given by:

#SA=2(lw+wh+lh)#

where:

#l# is the length of the cuboid

#w# is the width of the cuboid

#h# is the height of the cuboid

Here we have #h=398 \ "m",l=w=62 \ "m"# because there is a square base.

So we get:

#SA=2(398*62+62^2+398*62)#

#=2(24676+3844+24676)#

#=2*53196#

#=106392 \ "m"^2#