Finding surface area using net

- What I want to do in this
video is get some practice

finding surface areas of figures

by opening them up into
what's called nets.

And one way to think
about it is if you had

a figure like this, and if
it was made out of cardboard,

and if you were to cut it,

if you were to cut it right
where I'm drawing this red,

and also right over here
and right over there,

and right over there and also in the back

where you can't see just now,

it would open up into something like this.

So if you were to open it up,

it would open up into something like this.

And when you open it up, it's much easier

to figure out the surface area.

So the surface area of this figure,

when we open that up,
we can just figure out

the surface area of each of these regions.

So let's think about it.

So what's first of all the surface area,

what's the surface area
of this, right over here?

Well in the net, that
corresponds to this area,

it's a triangle, it has a base
of 12 and height of eight.

So this area right over
here is going to be one half

times the base, so times 12,

times the height, times eight.

So this is the same
thing as six times eight,

which is equal to 48 whatever
units, or square units.

This is going to be units of area.

So that's going to be 48 square units,

and up here is the exact same thing.

That's the exact same thing.

You can't see it in this figure,

but if it was transparent,

if it was transparent,
it would be this backside

right over here, but
that's also going to be 48.

48 square units.

Now we can think about the areas of

I guess you can consider
them to be the side panels.

So that's a side panel right over there.

It's 14 high and 10 wide,
this is the other side panel.

It's also this length over here
is the same as this length.

It's also 14 high and 10 wide.

So this side panel is
this one right over here.

And then you have one on the other side.

And so the area of each of these

14 times 10, they are 140 square units.

This one is also 140 square units.

And then finally we
just have to figure out

the area of I guess you can say the base

of the figure, so this whole
region right over here,

which is this area, which is
that area right over there.

And that's going to be 12 by 14.

So this area is 12 times 14,
which is equal to let's see.

12 times 12 is 144

plus another 24, so it's 168.

So the total area is
going to be, let's see.

If you add this one and
that one, you get 96.

96 square units.

The two magenta, I guess
you can say, side panels,

140 plus 140, that's 280. 280.

And then you have this
base that comes in at 168.

We want it to be that same color.

168. One, 68.

Add them all together, and
we get the surface area

for the entire figure.

And it was super valuable
to open it up into this net

because we can make sure
we got all the sides.

We didn't have to kinda
rotate it in our brains.

Although you could do that as well.

So, with six plus zero plus eight is 14.

Regroup the one ten to the tens
place, there's now one ten.

So one plus nine is ten, plus eight is 18,

plus six is 24, and then you have

two plus two plus one is five.

So the surface area of this figure is 544.

544 square units.