What is a surface area of a cube with the volume of $8cm^3$? Right, a cube with a volume of $8cm^3 =(2 \times 2 \times 2)$, what is the surface area? I think it's $8cm$, but I'm not sure and how do you work it out? My tutor sys it's $24cm$ but how is it? I've searched on the internet and it says you should do $l \times h \times w$. Confused?
 A: I think what you mean is that you have a cube of $\textbf{volume}$ $ \ 8\text{cm}^3$=2cm x 2cm x 2cm.
A cube has 6 faces of equal area.
Therefore, the total surface area of the cube is equal to 6 multiplied by the area of one of the faces.
The area of one of the faces is 4$\text{cm}^2$ = 2cm x 2cm.
Therefore the total area of the cube is 24$\text{cm}^2$ = 6 x 4$\text{cm}^2$.
One thing you must remember is your units of measurement, writing 8cm2 (2x2x2) really makes no sense, since you are equating an area with a single number without units.
The result of your internet search has returned the method for working out the volume of the cube (or in fact a cuboid).
Volume = Length x Width x Height $ \ \ $
 (cm$^3$ = cm x cm x cm)
A: Hint. A cube is composed of 6 same squares, each of area $2\times2\mathrm{cm}^2$.
Also I asume you mean it has volume of $8\mathrm{cm}^3$.
A: You're confused. If a cube is $2\text{cm}\times2\text{cm}\times2\text{cm},$ then it has a volume of $8\text{cm}^3$, not an area of $8\text{cm}^2$. Note that each of its faces is $2\text{cm}\times2\text{cm}$, so has an area of $4\text{cm}^2$. How many faces does a cube have?
