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Oh I se Thank you I was just curious because he has numbers at the botom and two of them are the same as the height of the other triangles so I though the other two were the ones that weren't labeled so that kind of was my reasoning for my answer....  

The net of a square pyramid is shown:



What is the surface area of the figure?

0.65 square inch 0.50 square inch 0.40 square inch 0.25 square inch 

I Didn't know how to include the pic so I have it like that : )

And no I post these things I can see the steps how from my last questions melody explained that is what i AM LOOKING FOR NOT A answer because I get confused with the steps and then I am wrong I am only looking for the process and this procees seems really easy 

Oh I forgot to metion another reson is I get told so many process it is really confussion to

So thanks for answering 

For this problem you can just calculate the areaa of the all the the shapes and add them together... 

The two formula's you will need for this will be the area of a triangle and the area of a rectangle 

Triangle

\(Base * Height *\frac{1}{2}\)

Rectangle 

\(Length * with\)

so lets calculate the area of the rectangle 

\(0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25\)

area of thhe rectangle is 0.25 square inches

Now to find the area of all four triangles and as you stated they have they all have diffrent heights I will start with the triangle that has a height of 0.40 0r 0.4 and go clock wise. 

so the area for this triangle is  

\(0.5 * 0.4 * \frac{1}{2} \)

\(0.5 * 0.4 = 0.20\)

\(0.20 * \frac{1}{2} = 0.1 \)

The total area of this triangle is 0.10

The next triangle is  

\(0.5 * 0.5 * \frac{1}{2}\)

\(0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25\)

\(0.25 * \frac{1}{2} = 0.125\)

The total area is 0.125

The next triangle. is  I am assuming you get the Idea on how to set up so I am going to jump to the problem from here.

\(0.5 * 0.65 = 0.325\)

\(0.325 * \frac{1}{2} = 0.1625\)

total area 0.1625  

The final triangle 

\(0.5 * 0.25 = 0.125\)

\(0.125 * \frac{1}{2} = 0.0625\)

0.6635 square units. ALTHOUGH I FEEL LIKE I DID SOMETHING WRONG I WOULD GO WITH EP's ANSWER.

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Thanks EP XD

Thanks

To calculate the surface area you have to find the area of each side so there are by the looks to right triangles that are identical and three rectangles.  

let's find the area of the two right triangles! 

The fromula for a triangle is

\( B*H*\frac{1}{2}\)  

so 

\(4 *3 = 12 * \frac{1}{2} = 6 squnits\)

and the triangle on the other side of the prisim is identicale so we add 6 + 6 = 12  

now we only have three rectangles to do so the fromula for calculating the areag of a rectangle is 

\(length * with\)  

and the one rectangle that lies on both triangles hynoptuses is 5 square units long and 3.5 wide. so 

\(5 * 3.5 = 17.5\)  

now are current value so far is 12 + 17.5 = 29.5 

The next rectangle on the bottom of the prism appears to be 3 square units long and 3.5 wide 

\(3*3.5 = 10.5\)

adding that up we now have 29.5 + 10.5 = 40 square units 

We now have only 1 more rectangle left which is 

4 square units long and 3.5 square units wide.  

\(4*3.5 = 14\)

40 + 14 = 54 Square units

XD come on dont get offended we are joking 

What does this mean all I can say is

1+1=2

and

2+1=3

Hope This halps :):)