How do you find the volume and surface area of a rectangular prism (box)?
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As long as the box you're working with truly fits the definition of a box, meaning it is built of rectangles on all sides and bases and is not slanted, then it has three measures: a length, a width, and a height.Tips
- If you are learning the volume formulas for several shapes, it is helpful to know that volume is always (base area) $\times$ (height) regardless of whether the base is a rectangle
- A shortcut for remembering the surface area formula is that it is simply the sum of every combination of $h$, $l$, and $w$, with a $2$ in front
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