{"id":278560,"date":"2025-08-02T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=278560"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:33:20","slug":"terry-made-a-plastic-birdhouse-with-the-dimensions-shown-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/02\/terry-made-a-plastic-birdhouse-with-the-dimensions-shown-below\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry made a plastic birdhouse with the dimensions shown below"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-141.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278562\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-0-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is&nbsp;<strong>376 square inches<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question asks for the amount of plastic Terry used to make the birdhouse&nbsp;<em>before<\/em>&nbsp;cutting the hole. This means we need to calculate the total surface area of the complete rectangular prism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The birdhouse has the shape of a rectangular prism with three given dimensions: a length of 10 inches, a width of 8 inches, and a height of 6 inches. The total surface area of an object is the sum of the areas of all its individual surfaces. A rectangular prism has six faces, which can be grouped into three pairs of identical rectangles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find the total surface area, we can calculate the area of each pair of faces and then add them all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Front and Back Faces:<\/strong>\u00a0The dimensions of the front face are length and height.<br>Area of one face = 10 inches \u00d7 6 inches = 60 square inches.<br>Since there are two identical faces (front and back), their combined area is 2 \u00d7 60 = 120 square inches.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Top and Bottom Faces:<\/strong>\u00a0The dimensions of the top face are length and width.<br>Area of one face = 10 inches \u00d7 8 inches = 80 square inches.<br>Since there are two identical faces (top and bottom), their combined area is 2 \u00d7 80 = 160 square inches.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Left and Right Side Faces:<\/strong>\u00a0The dimensions of the side faces are width and height.<br>Area of one face = 8 inches \u00d7 6 inches = 48 square inches.<br>Since there are two identical faces (left and right), their combined area is 2 \u00d7 48 = 96 square inches.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, to find the total amount of plastic used, we add the areas of all six faces:<br>Total Surface Area = 120 sq in + 160 sq in + 96 sq in = 376 square inches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, Terry used 376 square inches of plastic to build the birdhouse before the hole was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/learnexams-banner5-74.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278569\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The correct answer is&nbsp;376 square inches. The question asks for the amount of plastic Terry used to make the birdhouse&nbsp;before&nbsp;cutting the hole. This means we need to calculate the total surface area of the complete rectangular prism. The birdhouse has the shape of a rectangular prism with three given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}