A prism has isosceles triangle bases with leg lengths of 5 inches, 5 inches, and 8 inches, and a height of 3 inches. The distance between the bases is 12 inches. Find the surface area. Show your work, please. Thank you in advance for assisting me with this Math problem.

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Hi 

triangular prism has a base of a triangle and it is a isosceles triangle so it has two sides of same length.

to find the surface area of a trig prism u need to first kow abt the surfaces which is made of two triangles,two sloping rectangle and one bottom rectangle..
all u need to find those area and add them.
Pls find attached file for solution
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