Is a flattened out three dimensional solid (a three dimensional shape) -- like a cube, a prism or a pyramid. When you cut out the "net", fold it and glue it together you can see what the three dimensional shape looks like.
For example, if the length of one side of the cube 4 units then the area of one its face is 4 × 4 = 16 square units. From the net, we can see that there are six equal faces and so we get the total surface area is 6 × 16 = 96 square units. Example 1: Find the surface area of the given rectangular prism in square cm.
