Posted by Randy on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 2:30am.
Many authors define lateral surface area as the total area but not including any of the bases.
So depending on how your text has defined it,
lateral surface area = 4 times the area of the 4 rectangles
= 4(7)(20) = 560 cm^2
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