What is the surface area and what do I need to do?
1 answer:
check the picture below, that's pretty much the same block, or "rectangular prism", with a width of 10, length of 5 and height of 1.
so anyhow, is really 6 rectangles stacked up to each other at the edges, so, we can simply get the area of each of those rectangles, add them up and that's the surface area.
front and back, two rectangles of 5x1
left and right, two rectangles of 1x10
top and bottom, two rectangles of 10x5
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So when you're solving for x here and distribute 8 on the right side, it would look like this:
Now in order to solve for x, we know we have to get all the x's on one side of the equal sign. Let's get all our x's to the left side. Since the right side has a positive 8x, you need to subtract 8x on the right. But whatever you do to one side you must do to the other. So since we are subtracting 8x on the right, we need to do that on the left.
But we can't! Since both sides will cancel out to zero before x can be solved.
Therefore the answer is 0.
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