How to find the surface area of a polyhedron - Math

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Find the surface area of the following polyhedron.

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Answer

The formula for the surface area of a polyhedron is:

where is the radius of the polyhedron and is the slant height of the cone.

Use the formula for a triangle to find the length of the radius:

Plugging in our values, we get:

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