{"id":20857,"date":"2026-05-25T05:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/cuboid-total-surface-area-5\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T05:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:47:30","slug":"cuboid-total-surface-area-5","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/cuboid-total-surface-area-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuboid Total Surface Area"},"content":{"rendered":"
A cuboid measures 59 cm \u00d7 8 cm \u00d7 9 cm. What is its total surface area?<\/p>\n
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304 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n
2150 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n
1075 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n
4248 cm\u00b2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2878,2877],"subject":[2746],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-20857","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-cuboid","topic-volume-and-surface-area","subject-mensuration","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Total surface area of a cuboid = 2(lb + bh + lh). Here lb=472, bh=72, and lh=531. So TSA = 2 \u00d7 (472 + 72 + 531) = 2150 square cm. A cuboid has three pairs of equal rectangular faces: lb, bh, and lh. We add these three face areas and multiply by 2 to include the opposite faces. The answer is in square units, so the correct choice is 2150 cm\u00b2.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"304 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"yes","answer":"2150 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"1075 cm\u00b2"},{"right":"no","answer":"4248 cm\u00b2"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2746,"title":"Mensuration","slug":"mensuration"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2878,"title":"Cuboid","slug":"cuboid"},{"id":2877,"title":"Volume and Surface Area","slug":"volume-and-surface-area"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/20857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=20857"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=20857"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=20857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}