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Formulas for Polygons and Circles –

1 2D Shapes
• Rectangle b b b

height
– Area: A = bh b b b

b b
– Perimeter: P = 2b + 2h base

• Square
b b b

– Area: A = s2
side
– Perimeter: P = 4s b b b

• Parallelogram
b b b

– Area: A = bh height
– Perimeter: Add up all the sides b b b

b b

base

• Trapezoid base2
b b

b b b
1
– Area: A = + b2)
2 h(b1 height
– Perimeter: Add up all the sides b b b

b b
base1

• Triangle
b b

– Area: A = bh
2 height
– Perimeter: Add up all the sides b b b

b b

base

• Circle
Diameter

– Area: A = πr2
– Circumference: C = πD = 2πr radius
2 3D Shapes b
b
b

• Cube b

– Volume: V = s3 b

b
– Surface Area: S = 6s2
Side b

• Sphere
b

b
4 3
– Volume: V = 3 πr
– Surface Area: S = 4πr2
r

• Prism b
b b

– Volume: V = Bh where B b

is the area of the base b b b b

– Surface Area: S = 2B + P h

ht
where B is the area of the Ba s e

heig
Ba

ht
b b
base, P is the perimeter, se

g
hei
and h is the height
b b

• Cylinder Base

Height
– Volume: V = πr2 h
– Surface Area: S = 2πr2 + 2πrh

• Cone

– Volume: V = 31 πr2 h
s
– Surface Area: S = πr2 + πrs where s is the h

distance from the vertex to the circumference

of the base.
r

• Pyramid

– Volume: V = 31 Bh where B is the area of the

Height

base
– Surface Area: S = B+nA where n represents
b
the number of triangular faces connecting the
Ba s
base to the vertex, and A is the area of one e
triangular face.