Surface Area of a Cube
<p><a href="https://www.prepswift.com/quizzes/quiz/prepswift-surface-area-of-a-cube" target="_blank">Surface Area of a Cube Exercise</a></p><p><strong><span style="color:#8e44ad;">The Surface Area of a Cube</span></strong> is a calculation that can be thought of as finding the area of one of the cube's sides and then multiplying that number by $6$ because there are $6$ identical sides.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#8e44ad;">$$surface \ area = 6x^2$$</span></span></p>