SOLUTION: The height of a square pyramid is 3 meters shorter than the side of its base. If the volume of the pyramid is 432 m3, how tall is it?

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Question 829484: The height of a square pyramid is 3 meters shorter than the side of its base. If the volume of the pyramid is 432 m3, how tall is it?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) About Me  (Show Source):
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v=%281%2F3%29%28baseArea%29%28height%29.
More briefly, v=%281%2F3%29s%5E2%2Ah, using s as the side length of the square base, and h as the height.

Solve for h.
h=3v%2F%28s%5E2%29
Plug in the given values and compute h.

h=3%2A432%2F%283%2A3%29=432%2F3=144