Question

You want to stain the lateral faces of the wooden chest shown. Find the area that you want to stain in square inches.

Answer 1

The surface area of the cube-shaped wooden chest which has the side edges of 4 feet shown is 96 square inches.

What is the surface area of a cube?

Surface area of cube is the sum of the area of each face by which it is enclosed. The surface area of cube can be calculated with the following formula;

$A=6a^2$

Here, (a) is the length of side of the cube.

You want to stain the lateral faces of the wooden chest shown. Find the area that you want to stain in square inches.

A cube-shaped wooden chest with side edges of 4 feet. Thus the surface area of it is,

$A=6a^2\\A=6(4)^2\\A=96\rm\; ft^2$

Thus, the surface area of the cube-shaped wooden chest which has the side edges of 4 feet shown is 96 square inches.

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