Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
to find the surface area we need to find the followng areas:
- area of a triangle and multiply it by 4 (because there are 4 triangles)
And once we have those areas, we add them to find the surface area.
Area of the square:
the formula to find the area of a square is:

where
is the length of the side: 
thus the area of the square is:


Area of the triangles:
the are of 1 triangle is given by

where
is the base of the triangle:
(the base of the triangle is the side of the square)
and
is the height of the triangle: 
thus, the area of 1 triangle is:



the area of the 4 triangles is (we multiply by 4):


finally we add the area of the square and the area of the 4 triangles to find the total surface area:


No the lines are not parallel
Solve for x by simplifying both sides of the equation, then isolating the variable.
x = -4 is your answer
The answer is 8.507, 8.305, and 8.135