SOLUTION: A glass pyramid is designed to be situated at the center of a large courtyard. Each of the four triangular sides has a base that is 10 feet long and 10 feet high.
How many squar
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Question 78890: A glass pyramid is designed to be situated at the center of a large courtyard. Each of the four triangular sides has a base that is 10 feet long and 10 feet high.
How many square feet of glass are needed for the base and sides?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For the triangular sides, the area of one side is:
The base (b) is given as 10 feet and the height (h) is given as 10 feet. So...
square feet for one of the four triangular sides.
The four sides would have an area that is four times this or 4 X 50 = 200 square feet.
For the base,the area would be:
The length (L) and width (W) are given as 10 feet each, so...
square feet.
The total area is the sum of all of these:
square feet.
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