A prism is a polygon in three dimensions. A cube is a square prism that
you are probably familiar with. Shoeboxes and pizza boxes are rectangular
prisms. Prisms have two congruent polygons as ends, and their sides are
made up of parallelograms. The sides of prisms are called faces, while the
congruent ends are referred to as bases. The surface areaof a prism refers
to the collective area of all of the faces and bases of a three-dimensional
shape. Surface area can be determined with formulas or by breaking the
prism down into the sum of its two-dimensional components.
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