A square pyramid on top of a rectangular prism. The rectangular prism has a length of 4 meters, width of 4 meters, and height of 4 meters. The square pyramid has triangular sides that have a height of 3 meters and side length of 5 meters. Compare the surface area of the composite figure to the surface area to the combined surface areas of the figures if they were separated. The composite surface area would be
the surface area of the rectangular prism plus the surface area of the square pyramid considered separately.
You should not count the pyramid’s
as part of the composite figure’s surface area.