Can somebody please explain to me how to find the area of a triangular prism? I have a test coming up and will mark brainliest for best explination!

The formula is A = bh + 2ls + lb. Meaning The area is the base*height + 2(length*side) + length*base. You will be given numbers to equal all of these components of the triangular prism. Hope you undertsand if not sorry!

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

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