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Metal is cut away from a solid cube with a side 12 cm in such a way that a pyramid is produced with the same height and base as the cube. Determine the volume which was cut aw
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Metal is cut away from a solid cube with a side 12 cm in such a way that a pyramid is produced with the same height and base as the cube. Determine the volume which was cut away.
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a solid cube with a side has a volume of
since the volume of a pyramid is of the volume a solid cube, the volume of a pyramid is
the rest is the volume which was cut away, so
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