A 2 wl lh hw A 2 w l l h h w. Therefore the formula is. Area bottom edge length times width lw.
For example if the area is 60 and the width is 5 your equation will look like this.
A rectangle can only have area because it is a two-dimensional figure. For this shape the lateral surface area is quite easy to calculate as its made up of 3 rectangles which have one length of the side in common. A rectangular prism has total 12 lengths. Opposite sides have the same area.