SOLUTION: daniel made punch in a rectangular prism container with rectangle sides of 5 and 6 inches. he wants to split it up by poring it into rectangular pyramid containers with the same si
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Question 966909: daniel made punch in a rectangular prism container with rectangle sides of 5 and 6 inches. he wants to split it up by poring it into rectangular pyramid containers with the same side lengths and height as the square prism. how many containers with the same side lengths and height as the square prism. how many containers does he need? how could looking at the formulas help you find the answer.
(I tried this on my own and got the volume of 30 for the rectangular prism but im not sure if that's correct and I tried to find the volume for the rectangular pyramid bu I cant seen to figure it out HELP !!!!)
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the regular prism has sides of 5 and 6 inches.
those must be the rectangular base.
you haven't given the height.
the base area is 5 * 6 = 30 square inches.
the volume of the prism is equal to 30 * h.
the volume of a rectangular pyramid is equal to 1/3 * 30 * h.
looks like you can make 3 pyramids that would equal the same height and base of the rectangular prism.
this is because 3 * 1/3 * 30 * h is equal to 30 * h which is the volume of the rectangular prism.
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