Find the surface area of the regular pyramid shown to the nearest whole number. the figure is not drawn to scale.

If  you look at the pyramid, the pyramid is really just a hexagon with 6 triangles stacked up to each other at the edges, with the hexagon at the bottom.

now, the perpendicular distance from the center of the hexagon to a side, namely the apothem, is 6√3, and each side is 12 units long, since there are 6 of them that'd be 72 for all, namely the perimeter.

each of the triangular faces have a base of 12 and an altitude or height of 11, recall that area of a triangle is (1/2)bh, and area of a regular polygon is (1/2)(apothem)(perimeter).

so if we just get the area of the hexagon at the bottom, and the triangles, sum them up, that's the surface area of the pyramid.