SOLUTION: a pyramid has a slant height of 8 ft and has a squared base whose lengths of each side is 5 ft long as shown on the right. find the surface area of the pyramid and show how you get
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Question 974505: a pyramid has a slant height of 8 ft and has a squared base whose lengths of each side is 5 ft long as shown on the right. find the surface area of the pyramid and show how you get your result Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The base is 5*5 or 25 sq ft.
The 4 sides are triangles with base 5 and slant height 8
Area of one triangle is (1/2) bh. There are 4 such, so the total area is 2bh=80 sq ft.
The total area is 105 sq ft.
Area can be base area+ half the perimeter * the slant height. Perimeter=25
Half the perimeter * slant height= 80; sum=105 sq. ft.
