Math 6

Week 9
Solving Word
Problems Involving
Surface Area of
Solid Figures
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Direction: Identify the solid figure
represented by each net. Write your answers
on your answer sheets.
 Give different solid
figures and let them
recognize what
figure they have.
Example 1:
To solve the problem, follow these steps:
A. Understand
What is asked?
• - The surface area of the greenhouse What are the
given facts?
• - 10m, the length of the base of the pyramid - 15m,
the slant height of one triangular face
B. Plan
What formula should you use?
• Surface Area of a square pyramid
C. Solve
Applying the formula, you have the solution
below.

Complete answer:
The surface area of the greenhouse is 400 m2
Directions: Read and solve the problem
below. Then answer the following questions.
Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. What is asked?
A. The surface area of a ring
B. The surface area of the ball
C. Points gained by the opposing team
D. The radius of the ball

2. What are the given facts?

A. 4.7 inches radius of the ring
B. 7.4 inches radius of the ball
C. 4.7 inches radius of the ball
D. 7.4 inches radius of the ring
3. What formula should you use?

4. What is the number sentence?

5. What is the answer?
Directions: Solve the given
problem.

1. If a cube has a surface area of

600mm2. What is the
measurement of each side?
1. What are the steps in solving word
problems?
2. To be able to answer the problem,
what should you find out first?
3. If you want to ensure that your
answer is correct, what should you
do?
Directions: Read, analyze and solve for the Surface
Area of the given problems. Choose the letter of the
correct answer.
1. A gift box is in the shape of a rectangular prism
with dimensions of 20 centimetres in length, 14
centimetres in width and 10 centimetres in height.
How many square centimetres of wrapping paper will
be needed to wrap the gift box? (hint use the formula
S.A. = 2(lw + lh + wh) )
A. 1, 240 cm2 B. 1, 340 cm2
C. 1, 440 cm2 D. 1, 540 cm2
2. The measure of the edge of the cube box is 5 dm.
Calculate the surface area of the box. (hint use the
formula S.A. = 6s²)
A. 100 dm2 B. 150 dm2 C. 200 dm2 D. 250 dm2

3. The area of the base of a square pyramid is 49

dm2. If the height of the triangular face is 8 dm., find
its total surface area. (hint use the formula S.A. = a²
+ 2ah)
A. 158 dm2 B. 159 dm2
C. 160 dm2 D. 161 dm2
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B. Directions: Read and solve the word
problem. Answer the following questions
below.

Jaya wants to play magic cube and her

mother bought a cube for her. One side of a
cube is 6cm. Solve for its surface area.

1. What is asked?
2. What are the given facts?
3. What formula should
you use?
4. What is the number
sentence?
5. What is the answer?
On a separate sheet of paper, write T if the statement
is true and F if the statement is false.
________1. The faces of rectangular pyramid are
rectangle.
________2. A cone has two circular bases.
________3. The faces of the cube are triangles.
________4. Surface area refers to the sum of the
faces of solid figures.
________5. A cylinder is a three-dimensional figure
with two congruent circular bases that are parallel.
1. What are the steps in solving
word problems?
2. To be able to answer the
problem, what should you find out
first?
3. If you want to ensure that your
answer is correct, what should you
do?
Directions: Read , analyze and solve the
problems.
1. A cube shaped playroom has sides 26
inches long. Find its surface area.
2. A rectangular shipping container has a
length of 22 inches, width of 8 inches and
height of 12 inches. Find the surface area of
the shipping container?
3. A triangular prism has a
triangular end with a base of
12 dm and a height of 9 dm.
The length of each side is 14
dm and the width of each side
is 9 dm. What is the surface
area of the prism?
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Directions: Read and answer the questions. A
rectangular prism has a width of 10 cm, a height of 3
cm and a depth of 7 cm.
What is the surface area of the prism?
What is asked in the problem?
______________________
What are the given facts? _____________________
What is the formula to be used?
___________________________
What is the answer?
__________________________
 Draw a
cylinder and
label it.
Solving Problems Involving Surface Area of
Cone, Cylinder and Sphere

Problem 1: Angeline wants to cover her

cylindrical can with plastic to make a flower
vase. If the can is 15 cm high and its diameter
is 10 cm, how much materials are needed to
cover her can?
Understand:
a. What is asked?
Answer: The amount of materials
needed to cover the can b. What are the given
facts? Answer: Height of 15 cm and a
diameter of 10 cm Since the given is
diameter, we need to divide it by 2 to find the
radius.
Plan: a. Which formula shall we use to solve the
problem?
Answer: The can is in the shape of a cylinder.
Let us use the formula below to find its Surface
Area.

Solve:
Answer: The amount of materials needed to
cover the can is 628 cm².

Check: Go back to your computation. Check

if the given side is properly substituted to the
formula. Check also the flow of the
computation.
Problem 2: Mother made a big Christmas ball using
old newspapers. The Christmas ball has a radius of 12
cm. What is the surface area of the Christmas ball?

Understand:
a. What is asked?
Answer: The surface area of the Christmas ball

b. What are the given facts?

Answer: Radius of 12 cm.
Plan: a. Which formula shall we use to solve the
problem?

Answer: The Christmas ball is a sphere. Let us use

the formula below to find its Surface Area.

Solve:
Answer: The surface area of the Christmas
ball is 1,808.64 cm².

Check:
Go back to your computation. Check if the
given side is properly substituted to the
formula. Check also the flow of the
computation.
Directions: Read, analyze and solve the given
problems. Use π= 3.14.
1. Solve for the surface area of a can of milk
with a radius of 4 inches and a height of 12
inches.

2. A volleyball has a radius of 11 cm. Find the

surface area of the volleyball.
3. A cone has a circular base of
radius 10cm and a slant height of
30 cm. Find its surface area.
Directions: Read and solve the
given problem. Maria wants to
cover her flowerpot with a wall
sticker. If the flowerpot is 13 cm
high and its radius is 5 cm, how
much materials are needed to
cover her flowerpot?
Directions: Answer the given
question. What are the steps
used to make solving
problems involving surface
area of cone, cylinder and
sphere easier?
Directions: Solve and choose the
letter of the correct answer.

1. A can of sardines has a radius of

10 m and a height of 25 cm. What
is the surface area of the can?
A. 3,421 m² B. 2,198 m²
C. 948 m² D. 519 m²
2. The radius of the beach volleyball is 4 dm.
What is the formula to find its surface area?
A. SA=4πr² B. SA= πr(r + s)
C. SA=2πr (r + h) D. SA= 6s²

3. The base of a cone is 22 dm in diameter and a

slant height of the curved surface is 14 dm. What
is the surface area? What is asked in the
problem? A. the area of the cone
B. the surface area of the cone
C. the height of the cone
D. the diameter of the cone
4. What is the surface area of a glass that
has a radius of 4 cm and a height of 11 cm.
What are the given facts?
A. 4 cm B. 11 cm
C. 4 cm and 11 cm D. the surface area

5. If a bowling ball has a radius of 7 inches,

what is its surface area
A. 348.24 in² B. 615.44 in²
C. 735.36 in² D. 929.34 in
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Directions: Solve for the surface area using
the steps in problem solving.

1. In an Araling Panlipunan class, a globe

with radius 14 cm is used to represent the
Earth. Find the surface area of the globe?
A. What is asked?
B. What is/are given?
C. What is the formula to be used?
D. What is the answer?
2. The radius of the base is 4 cm and
the height is 13 cm. Assume the can
is shaped exactly like a cylinder, find
its surface area.
A. What is asked?
B. What is/are given?
C. What is the formula to be used?
D. What is the answer?
Directions: Answer the questions the best that
you can.
1. How did Angeline make her cylindrical can
useful again?
2. What about mother, what did she make out of
newspapers?
3. What is the process of using old things to make
new things? Can you guess? __ E C __C L___
4. Is it important to recycle things? Why?
5. What are the other things that can be recycled?
Directions: Answer the given
question. What are the steps
used to make solving
problems involving surface
area of cone, cylinder and
sphere easier?
Directions: Read and solve the given
problems.

1. A water pipe has a radius of 4 m and height

of 12 m. Find its surface area?
A. 602.88 m²
B. 401.92 m²
C. 301.44 m²
D. 100.48 m²
2. A birthday hat has a circular base of radius
9 cm and a slant height of 12 cm. What is the
formula to find its surface area?
A. 4πr² B. πr(r + s)
C. 6s² D. 2πr (r + h)

3. What is the surface area of the birthday

hat? A. 593.46 cm² B. 678.58 cm²
C. 768.58 cm² D. 876.58 cm²
4. Last summer, Marian and Heart played
with a beach ball on the seashore. The
beach ball was in the shape of a sphere
with radius of 9 inches. What was the
surface area of the beach ball? What is
asked in the problem?
A. the shape of the beach ball
B. the total number of the beach ball
C. the area of the beach ball?
D. the surface area of the beach ball
5. What is the surface area of
the beach ball?
A. 173.36 in²
B. 527 in²
C. 1,017.36 in²
D. 1,273.36 in²
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Read and study the problem below.

Mary wants to wrap her rectangular gift with

a dimension of 15 cm by 6 cm by 2 cm. What
is the least amount of wrapper can she use to
wrap the gift?

Can you help Mary to find the least

amount of wrapper to wrap her gift?
To solve the problem above, we will follow
the following steps:

1. Understand:
a. What is asked?
Answer: The least amount of wrapper she can
use to wrap the gift?
b. What are the given?
Answer: dimension: 15 cm by 6 cm by 2 cm
2. Plan: What strategy can we use to
solve the problem?
Answer: The problem asked for the
wrapper to be used around the gift.
We can solve the problem by finding
the surface area of a rectangular
prism.
3. Solution: Use the formula to find the
surface area of a rectangular prism.
4. Check: To check our answer, we will find
the area using another formula:
Read and solve the following problem
using the steps illustrated in the =
3.14previous section. Use

1. Find the surface area of the basketball

with a radius of 4.25 cm. Round your
answer to the nearest tenths.
2. An ice cream cone has a
circular base of radius 2 cm
and a slant height of 5 cm.
What is the surface area of
the cone?
Match the solid figure in
column A to its surface area
formula on column B.
Write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.
Directions: Answer the given
question. What are the steps
used to make solving
problems involving surface
area of cone, cylinder and
sphere easier?
Directions: Solve for the surface area of the
given problem.

1. A notepad cube measures 2 inches on each

side. Find its surface area.
A. 24 in²
B. 48 in²
C. 56 in²
D. 67 in²
2. A rectangular brick has a length of
5 cm, a width of 9 cm and a height of
20 cm. What is the surface area of
that brick?
A. 650 cm² B. 600 cm²
C. 525 cm² D. 450 cm²
3. A square pyramid is covered with
decorative wrapping paper with no overlap.
The measurement of the box has a width of 6
cm and a height of 12 cm. How many square
centimetres of wrapping paper are needed to
cover the surfaces of the box?

A. 108 cm² B. 180 cm²

C. 324 cm² D. 408 cm²
4. A box shaped like a rectangular prism has a
length of 4 m, width of 3 m and 2 m tall. How
much cardboard is needed to make the box.
A. 52 m² B. 26 m²
C. 24 m² D. 9 m²

5. Find the surface area of the triangular pyramid if

each triangle is congruent, with a base of 7 ft. and
a height of 6 ft.
A. 42 ft² B. 84 ft²
C. 126 ft² D. 168 ft²
Thank you!!!!