SOLUTION: The volume of a cube is 144 cubic meters. What is the volume of the square based pyramid with the same side length and height?
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Question 318260: The volume of a cube is 144 cubic meters. What is the volume of the square based pyramid with the same side length and height?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Volume of a rectangular prism:
Where 
is the area of the base and 
is the height.
Volume of a pyramid:
Where is the area of the base and is the height.
So divide the volume of the cube by 3.
John
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