Three cubes of side 10 cm are joined end to end to form a cuboid as given in the figure. Find is total surface area.

Solution:
The cuboid is a solid-shaped figure formed by six faces. A cuboid is a simple figure. It has three dimensions - width, length, and height. Thus, the cuboid is a parallelepiped. Now, the surface area of the parallelepiped is the sum of the areas of all sides, that is:
[tex]S\text{ =2(}lw+lh+wh\text{)}[/tex]where
l is the lenght
w is the width
and
h is the height
According to the figure given in the problem, we have that:
l = 30
w = 10
h = 10
thus, the surface area of the given cuboid would be:
[tex]\begin{gathered} S\text{ =2(}lw+lh+wh\text{)} \\ \text{ = 2((}30\cdot10\text{)+(30}\cdot10\text{)+(10}\cdot10\text{))=}1400 \end{gathered}[/tex]So that, we can conclude that the correct answer is:
[tex]1400[/tex]