Question

Find the volume for the regular pyramid.

slant height = 6, length of side = 4

Answer 1

@jollysailorbold

Answer 2

help me pleasee:)

Answer 3

I helping you through the messages though!

Answer 4

yep. got it

Answer 5

lol ok:)

Answer 6

whatever. i'll continue here. :D

so you see the right triangles?
(pardon the bad drawing:D)

so you need to find the apothem of the hexagon( which will be a side of the little triangle inside it)

Answer 7

okay

Answer 8

apothem = \[s \over 2\tan (180 / n) \]

where s is the length of any side and n is the number of sides

Answer 9

so can you calculate that?

Answer 10

just plug it in.

Answer 11

yeah!

Answer 12

do you want the answer as a decimal?

Answer 13

sure

Answer 14

1.154700538

Answer 15

what do i do now :D?

Answer 16

the apothem should be something else :) try again.

Answer 17

:/ my calculator is wrong thenn... oh mann... i forgot to put t in degrees -.-

Answer 18

woah. what's going on. um. wait.

Answer 19

okay
i got 1.154700538

Answer 20

DID YOU MESS UP :O :(

Answer 21

Its okay :)

Answer 22

i dont know. all i know is that the apothem should be 3.4. SO. anyways.

so not it's your turn. what's the area of the small leeeeettle triangle.