Write a program to find the Surface Area of a Triangular Prism

Before writing the program of calculating the area of a triangular prism in different programming languages, firstly we have to know about the triangular prism and its formula.

What is Triangular Prism?

Triangular Prism is a 3-D shape, which has 5 faces, 6 vertices, and 9 edges.

Area of Triangular Prism

As, the prism contains 2 triangles and 3 rectangles. So,

Surface area of Triangular Prism = (b * h) + (L * (s1 + s2 + s3))
Where, b is the bottom edge of base triangle, L is the prism length, h is the height of base triangle, and s1, s2, and s3 are the three edges of base triangle. 

Program of calculating the area of a triangular prism in different Programming languages

Program 1: Write a Program in C language:

// This program which uses a function to find the area of a triangular prism.
#include <stdio.h>
float find_area_of_Triangular_prism(float L, float b, float h, float s1, float s2, float s3) // It is a function to find area 
{ 
float area_of_Triangular_prism ;
area_of_Triangular_prism = (b * h) + (L * (s1 + s2 + s3)); // It is a formula for calculating the area of triangular prism  
return (area_of_Triangular_prism ); 
} 
float main() 
{ 
float b = 9, h = 5, s1 = 3; 
float s3 = 6, s2 = 8, L = 8;
printf("Surface area of the triangular prism  is: %f", find_area_of_Triangular_prism(L, b, h, s1, s2, s3));   
return 0; 
}

Output of Above C program:

Surface area of the triangular prism  is: 181.000000

Program 2: Write a Program in Java language:

// This is a Java program which finds the area of a triangular prism .
class findarea { 
static float find_area_of_Triangular_prism(float L, float b, float h, float s1, float s2, float s3) 
{  
float area_of_Triangular_prism ;
area_of_Triangular_prism = (b * h) + (L * (s1 + s2 + s3)); // It is a formula for calculating the area of triangular prism  
return(area_of_Triangular_prism); 
} 
// Driver method 
public static void main(String[] args) 
{ 
float b = 3, h = 4, s1 = 3, s2 = 6; 
float s3 = 6, L = 8;
System.out.println("The area of a triangular prism  is:");
System.out.println(find_area_of_Triangular_prism(L, b, h, s1, s2, s3)); 
} 
}

Output of Above Java program:

The area of a triangular prism  is:
132.0

Program 3: Write a Program in PHP programming language.

<?php 
// This is a PHP program which finds the area of a triangular prism.  
// Function to find area 
function find_area_of_Triangular_prism($L, $b, $h, $s1, $s2, $s3) 
{   
$area_of_Triangular_prism  =($b * $h) + ($L * ($s1 + $s2 + $s3)); // It is an statement which uses a forumla to find the surface area and store the value in the area_of_triangular prism variable. 
return ($area_of_Triangular_prism); 
} 
$b = 4; 
$h = 4;  
$s1 = 6; 
$s2 = 9; 
$s3 = 2; 
$L = 1;
echo find_area_of_Triangular_prism($L, $b, $h, $s1, $s2, $s3); 
?>

Output of Above PHP program:

Program 4: Write a Program in Python programming language.

# This is a python program which finds the area of a triangular prism . 
def find_area_of_Triangular_prism(L, b, h, s1, s2 ,s3):
    return ( (b * h) + (L * (s1 + s2 + s3)) ) # It is a formula which finds the value of area.
# main code begins 
b = 4; 
h = 4;  
s1 = 6; 
s2 = 9; 
s3 = 2; 
L = 1;
print(find_area_of_Triangular_prism(L, b, h, s1, s2, s3) )

Output of Above Python program:

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