SOLUTION: The height of a square pyramid is 3 meters shorter than the side of its base. If the volume of the pyramid is 432 m3, how tall is it?
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Question 829484: The height of a square pyramid is 3 meters shorter than the side of its base. If the volume of the pyramid is 432 m3, how tall is it?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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More briefly, , using s as the side length of the square base, and h as the height.
Solve for h.
Plug in the given values and compute h.
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