SURFACE AREA

AND VOLUME

NOTES PACKET
STUDY GUIDE

NAME __________________________

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 IDENTIFYING PRISMS AND
PYRAMIDS
A ___________ is a solid with two parallel congruent bases joined by faces that are
parallelograms. A prism is named by the shape of its ____________.

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

Name each prism. In each prism, identify a base, a face, an edge, and a vertex.

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A ___________ is a solid with a base that is a polygon and sides that are ___________
and meet at the top. A pyramid is named by the shape of its ____________.

Triangular Pyramid Rectangular Hexagonal

Pyramid Pyramid

Triangular Base Rectangular Base Hexagonal base

3 Triangular faces 4 Triangular faces 6 triangular faces

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

Name each pyramid.

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 Finding the areas of
rectangles, triangles, and
trapezoids

FORMULAS

EXAMPLE 1: Find the area.

1. 2.

3. 4.

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 Finding the volumes of
rectangular prisms

FORMULAS

EXAMPLE 2: Find the volume of each solid.

1. 2.

GUIDED PRACTICE
a.) b.)

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 NETS OF SOLIDS
A net is a plane figure that can be folded to make a _______________.

Solid Diagram Net Description

Cube

Rectangular
Prism

Triangular
Prism

Square
Pyramid

Triangular
Pyramid

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 Finding Surface Area of
Cubes and Rectangular
Prisms
The surface area of a solid is the area of its ________, or the _________ of the area of
every face of the solid.

EXAMPLE 3: A wooden cube has edges measuring 5 centimeters each. Find the
surface area of the cube.

The surface area of a cube is the area of the net of the cube. The net shows the 6
square faces of the cube.

If S is the surface area, and e is the length of an edge, then S=6e2.

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EXAMPLE 4: Find the surface area of a rectangular prism that is 12 inches long, 8
inches wide, and 4 inches high.

To find the surface area, draw a net of the rectangular prism. The surface area of
the prism is the area of its net. The opposite faces of a rectangular prism are
congruent. In the net below, the congruent faces are the same color.

The surface area of a rectangular prism can be found using the formula:

Surface area = 2lw + 2lh + 2wh

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 GUIDED PRACTICE
a) A cube has edges measuring 6 centimeters each. Find the surface area of
the cube.

b) A rectangular prism measures 7 inches by 5 inches by 10 inches. Find the

surface area of the prism.

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 Finding Surface Area of
Triangular Prisms and
Pyramids
The surface area of a triangular prism is the area of its net. A triangular prism has 3
________________ faces and 2 congruent _______________ bases.

EXAMPLE 5: The triangular prism shown has three rectangular faces. Its bases are
congruent isosceles triangles. Find the surface area of the triangular prism.

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EXAMPLE 6: This pyramid has a square base measuring 10 inches on each side. It
has four faces that are congruent isosceles triangles. The height of each triangle is
12 inches. Find the surface area of the pyramid.

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 GUIDED PRACTICE
a) The triangular prism shown has three rectangular faces. Its bases are
congruent right triangles. Find the surface area of the triangular prism.

b) Alicia makes a pyramid that has an equilateral triangle as its base. The other
three faces are congruent isosceles triangles. She measures the lengths
shown on the net of her pyramid. Find the surface area.

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 Recognizing Cylinders,
Cones, Spheres and Pyramids
A solid cylinder has a curved surface and two _____________ bases that
are ______________ circles. The radius of a cylinder is the radius of one
of its bases. The _________ of a cylinder is the perpendicular distance
between two parallel __________.

A cylinder has some things in common with a prism. Both solids have
two bass. But the bases of a cylinder are circle instead of a polygon,
and a cylinder has a curved surface instead of flat faces.

The cylinder has the net shown below. The net of a cylinder is made up
of two circles for the two bases and a rectangle for the curved surface.

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A __________ has a circular base, a cured surface, and one _______________. The
curved surface of the cone is also called the lateral surface.

The height of a cone is the distance from the _____________ to the center of the
base. The _____________height is the distance from the vertex to any point on the
circumference of the base.

The net of a cone is made up of a circle for the base and a portion of a circle for
the lateral surface. The cone has the net shown below.

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A ________________ has a curved surface. Every point on the surface is an equal
distance from the center of the sphere. The distance from the center of a sphere
to any point on its surface is called the _______________ of the sphere.

If you slice a sphere in half you will get two ___________________, as shown below.

Finding Volume and Surface

Area of Cylinders

The base of a cylinder is a circle. The volume of a cylinder is calculated by

multiplying the area of the base by the height of the cylinder. The formula for
calculating the volume of a cylinder is:

𝑉 = 𝜋𝑟 2 ℎ

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EXAMPLE 7: Find the volume of a cylinder with a diameter of 3 inches and a height
of 5 inches. State your answer in terms of 𝜋 and round your answer to the nearest
tenth.

GUIDED PRACTICE
Use the given dimensions to find the volume of each cylinder.

a) Radius = 5 cm, height = 7.5 cm, round your answer to the nearest tenth.

b) Diameter = 7 inches, height = 5 inches, state your answer in terms of 𝜋.

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SURFACE AREA OF A CYLINDER

A = area of 2 bases + area of curved surface

A = 2πr2 + 2πrh

EXAMPLE 8: A cylinder has a height of 15 centimeters and a radius of 4 centimeters.

What is the surface area of the cylinder? State your answer in terms of 𝜋 and round
to the nearest tenth.

GUIDED PRACTICE
a. A cylinder has a radius of 4 b. A cylinder has a radius of 6 feet
inches and a height of 7 inches. and a height of 10 feet. Find the
Find the surface area of the surface area of the cylinder. State
cylinder. your answer in terms of 𝜋.

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 FINDING THE VOLUME OF
PYRAMIDS AND CONES
The diagrams show a square pyramid, a rectangular pyramid, and a triangular
pyramid.

Before you find the volume of a pyramid, you have to find the ___________________.
Then you can use the formula below. In the formula, B is the area of the base, and
h is the height.

VOLUME OF A PYRAMID

1
𝑉= 𝐵ℎ
3

The volume of a pyramid is one-third the volume of a prism with the same height
and base area as the pyramid. Similarly, the volume of a cone is one-third the
volume of a cylinder with the same height and base area as the cone.

VOLUME OF A CONE
1
𝑉 = 𝐵ℎ
3

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EXAMPLE 9: What is the volume of the rectangular pyramid?

GUIDED PRACTICE
a) The base of a pyramid is a right triangle. The triangle has a base of 5 centimeters
and a height of 3 centimeters. The pyramid has a height of 6 centimeters. What is
the volume of the pyramid?

STEP 1: Find B, the area of the base, using the

area formula of a triangle:

1
B = 2 𝑏ℎ

STEP 2: Substitute the area of the base from

part 1 and the height of the pyramid into the
formula:

1
𝑉= 𝐵ℎ
3

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b) A square pyramid has a height of 12 meters. If a side of the base measures 5.5
meters, what is the volume of the pyramid?

STEP 1: Find B, the area of the base, using the area formula of a square:

B = s2

STEP 2: Substitute the area of the base from part 1 and the height of the
pyramid into the formula:

1
𝑉 = 𝐵ℎ
3

EXAMPLE 10: Find the exact volume of the cone. State your answer in terms of 𝜋.
Also find an approximation of the volume of the cone, rounded to the nearest
tenth.

Exact Volume: ______________ Approximation: ____________

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 GUIDED PRACTICE
a) A party hat is in the shape of a cone. Find the exact volume of the party hat as
well as an approximation of the volume of the cone. Round your answer to the
nearest tenth.

The exact volume of the hat is _______________.

An approximation of the volume of the hat is ______________.

b) The diagram shows a cone-shaped container. Find the exact volume of the
container as well as an approximation of the volume rounded to the nearest tenth.

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EXAMPLE 11: Suzanne is serving yogurt in cone-shaped parfait glasses. The cone-
shaped part of each glass has a height of 9 centimeter and a diameter of 7
centimeters. How many cubic centimeters of yogurt can Suzanne serve if she fills 3
parfait glasses? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

GUIDED PRACTICE
Jean wants to sell lemonade in cone-shaped paper cups. Each cup has a
diameter of 4 centimeters and a height of 8 centimeters. She wants to make
enough lemonade for 50 cups. How much lemonade does Jean need to make?
Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

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 FINDING THE SURFACE AREA OF
PYRAMIDS AND CONES
The length from O to A on a ______________ circular cone is called the
_________________ of the cone. The slant height is the distance between the vertex
and a point on the _____________________________ of the base. When you cut the
cone along OA and flatten it, you will get a portion of a circle with center O and
radius l units.

To find the surface area, you find the ___________ of the area of its base and the
area of its curved surface. The curved surface is called the lateral surface.

The area of the base of a cone is ________, where r is the radius of the cone.

The area of the lateral surface is _______, where l is the slant height of the cone.
Lateral means side, so the lateral surface area of a prism, pyramid, cylinder, and
cone does not include the area of the base (or bases).

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 SURFACE AREA OF CONE

A = 𝜋𝑟 2 + 𝜋𝑟𝑙

EXAMPLE 11: The diagram shows a cone with a radius of 5 centimeters

and a slant height of 15 centimeters.

PART A: Find the exact lateral surface area (curved surface) of the
cone.

PART B: Find the total surface area of the cone. Find the exact
surface and round your answer to the nearest tenth.

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 GUIDED PRACTICE
A solid cone has a radius of 7 inches and a slant height of 14 inches.

PART A: What is the exact area of the cone’s curved surface?

PART B: What is the total surface area of the cone? Find the exact
value and round your answer to the nearest tenth.

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EXAMPLE 12: A cone-shaped roof has a radius of 14 feet and a slant
height of 17 feet. The roof is covered completely with glass. The cost of
glass is $40 per square foot. What is the cost of covering the roof with
glass?

GUIDED PRACTICE
Jessica makes a cone-shaped paper filter to line a cone-shaped
funnel. The funnel has a radius of 5 inches and a slant height of 10
inches. Suppose Jessica wants to make cone-shaped filters for 25 such
fennels. About how many square inches of filter paper will she need?

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 FINDING THE VOLUME OF
SPHERES
The volume of a sphere with a radius of r units is given by the formula below. The
diameter of a sphere is a segment that passes through the center of the sphere
and has its endpoints on the surface of the sphere. The diameter is twice the length
of the radius.

VOLUME OF A SPHERE

4 3
𝑉 = 𝜋𝑟
3

EXAMPLE 13: An iron ball has a diameter of 6 centimeters. Find the exact volume of
the iron ball and round your answer to the nearest cubic centimeter.

The exact volume of the sphere is ________ and the approximation is _____.

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 GUIDED PRACTICE
The diameter of a sphere is 8.8 meters. What is the exact volume of the sphere?
What is the approximate value rounded to the tenths place.

The exact volume is ___________ and the approximation is ___________.

FINDING THE SURFACE AREA OF

SPHERES

SURFACE AREA OF A SPHERE

𝑆 = 4𝜋𝑟 2

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EXAMPLE 14: A sphere has a radius of 3 centimeters. What is the surface area of
the sphere? Find the exact surface area and round your answer to the nearest
tenth.

GUIDED PRACTICE
What is the surface area of a sphere with a radius of 6 centimeters? Find the exact
surface area and round your answer to the nearest tenth.

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