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Surface Areas and Volumes

The job picks the faces

An object has many faces. The question decides which ones count.

One object; a job picks how to read it.
Step 1 of 4
  1. One object; a job picks how to read it.
  2. The question's words choose a branch.
  3. Covering reads the outside faces.
  4. Filling takes the whole inside.

Faces for the job

A job is what the question asks for, such as painting. Paint reaches only the outside. So parts that touch are left out.

Which faces each job counts
ObjectJobFaces counted
TentCanvasCone skin + cylinder wall
Round-bottomed toyPaintCone skin + dome skin
CapsulePaint2 domes + cylinder wall
Cube with a bowlSurface6 faces − mouth + bowl
Cylinder with a bowl of its own radius at each endSurfaceWall + 2 bowls

In the last row, the two bowls replace both end discs. Only the wall and two bowls remain.

Example: a capsule has radius 7 and a cylinder 10 long. So r = 7 and h = 10. The wall is 2πrh = 2 × 22/7 × 7 × 10 = 440. Each dome is 2πr² = 2 × 22/7 × 49 = 308. Two domes make 2 × 308 = 616. The surface is 440 + 616 = 1056.

Read the job before the shapes. List the faces you can touch or see. Leave out parts that touch each other. Leave out parts the job skips.

Pick the faces for five jobs.

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  1. 0 Start here
  2. 1 Two solids, one object
  3. 2 Peel it, fill it
  4. 3 What the join hides
  5. 4 The tent and its floor
  6. 5 The hollow that trades
  7. 6 The slant across the join
  8. 7 The job picks the faces
  9. 8 A question, start to finish
  10. 9 The big picture
  11. 10 Track quiz

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