2. Surface Areas of Prisms and Cylinders
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Recall that in an oblique prism, at least one lateral face is not a rectangle but a parallelogram. In contrast, in a right prism, the lateral faces are rectangles.
Description: The net is formed by 2 rectangles and 4 parallelograms. In a right rectangular prism, the net contains 6 rectangles.
Example Prism:
Let's begin by drawing a rectangular prism. Recall that its bases are rectangles and at least one lateral face is not a rectangle.
As we can see, the bases are rectangles while the four lateral faces are parallelograms. In contrast, in the net of a right rectangular prism all the lateral faces are rectangles.