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Surface area of prisms

The starter and exit quiz of the lesson “Surface area of prisms”, from the unit “Perimeter, area and volume” (Year 8 Maths) by Oak National Academy.

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12 questions

  1. The area of a rectangle with a width of 7 cm and a length of 12 m is ___m².
  2. The area of a triangle with a base length of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 8 cm is ___ cm².
  3. The area of a trapezium is being calculated {\text {Area}}={{1}\over{2}} \times {(6+16)} \times {12} = 132 \text{ cm}^2. What is the perpendicular height of this trapezium?
  4. A prism is a polyhedron with a base that is a ___ and a parallel opposite face that is identical. The corresponding edges of the two polygons are joined by parallelograms.
  5. The perimeter of this shape is___ cm.
  6. Match the shape of the base with the name of the prism.
  7. The surface area is the ___ area of all the surfaces of a closed 3D shape. The surfaces include all faces and any curved surfaces.
  8. Which of these are nets for a cube?
  9. Here is a right prism. Which of these descriptions is correct?
  10. The areas of the faces of a triangular prism are 24\text{ cm}^2,24\text{ cm}^2,50\text{ cm}^2, 40\text{ cm}^2\text{ and }30\text{ cm}^2 respectively. The surface area is ___ \text{ cm}^2.
  11. The surface area of this right-angled isosceles triangular prism is ___ \text{ cm}^2.
  12. In a right prism, the rectangular faces can be seen as one large rectangle. The dimensions of the large rectangle are the ___ of the base by the length of the prism.

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