What is the surface area, in square centimeters, of a cube with each edge length of 5 cm?

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Answer 1 · 2016-03-04T03:18:36

The surface area of a cube is just the area of all six sides of the cube. Therefore, if we let s = the cube's side,

The surface area would be #6 * s^2# because the area of one face is #s^2# and there are six faces

Given this, we know from the problem that #s = 5#

We can just plug in for s.

SA = #6 * 5^2#

SA = #6 * 25#

SA = #150#