Question

the area of a face a cube is 16cm, find the total surface area of a cube

Answer 1

Given that

a is 16cm

then

$total \: surface \: area \: of \: cube = 6 \times {a}^{2} \\ = 6 \times {16}^{2} \\ = 6 \times 256 \\ = 1536c {m}^{2}$

hence total surface area of cube is 1536cm sq