SOLUTION: Given that ABCDEFGH is a cube, what is significant about the square pyramids ADHEG, ABCDG, and ABFEG?

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Question 1163510: Given that ABCDEFGH is a cube, what is significant about the square pyramids ADHEG, ABCDG, and ABFEG?
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


With the given definition of the three square pyramids, vertex G is common to all three; and the square bases are ABCD, ABFE, and ADHE.

My spatial sense is not particularly good... but it appears that means the three square pyramids together make up the whole cube.


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