SOLUTION: A frustum of a regular square pyramid has bases with sides of length 6 and 10. The height of the frustum is 12, find the surface area.
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Question 1137151: A frustum of a regular square pyramid has bases with sides of length 6 and 10. The height of the frustum is 12, find the surface area.
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A frustum of a regular square pyramid has bases with sides of length 6 and 10. The height of the frustum is 12, find the surface area.
The areas of the two bases are easy: and
To find the lateral surface area, you need to know the of each face.
To find that slant height, drop a perpendicular from the middle of one side of the top base to the bottom base.
With the side lengths of the two bases and , that perpendicular will touch the bottom base units from the edge (half of , minus half of ).
Then, since the height of the frustum is , the slant height of each face, by the Pythagorean Theorem, is
Each face is then a trapezoid with bases and and height ; that makes the area of each face .
So the total surface area, both bases and all four faces, is
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