Question

The area of the base of the sculpture is 49 square feet. What is the lateral area of the sculpture in square feet?

Answer 1

is there a picture to this?
what is the sculpture? a prism?, pyrmid? cube? sphere? etc...

Answer 2

I'll draw it.

Answer 3

ok

Answer 4

umm... will this work? http://learn.flvs.net/webdav/assessment_images/educator_geometry_v14/pool_Geom_3641_0700_Subtest_03_17/image0034e5fbd82a.jpg

Answer 5

I'm really not a good drawer.

Answer 6

i'm not getting a picture.. just an error message... try again...:)

Answer 7

describe it to me... what does it look like?

Answer 8

thats weird

Answer 9

http://learn.flvs.net/webdav/assessment_images/educator_geometry_v14/pool_Geom_3641_0700_Subtest_03_17/image0034e5fbd82a.jpg

Answer 10

how bout now?

Answer 11

ok... i tried it again... it's a pyrmid...

Answer 12

k

Answer 13

I don't really know what to do.

Answer 14

any ideas?

Answer 15

could you teach me so i won't forget?

Answer 16

ok.. the problem asks for the lateral surface area... that's the area of all those 4 triangles added together... do you see those 4 triangles on the sides of the pyrmid?

Answer 17

yes

Answer 18

the area for a triangle is 1/2bh

Answer 19

correct...

Answer 20

so if we can just find the area of 1 of those triangles, we can multiply it by 4 to get the lateral surface area.... agreed?

Answer 21

heck yes!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 22

i love your enthusiasm...:)

Answer 23

ty

Answer 24

Is the pythagorean Theorem neccessary?

Answer 25

one more thing... they say the base has an area of 49... that means the square at the bottom is 7 by 7... agreed?

Answer 26

So the area of the base is the base of the triangle squared, right?

Answer 27

so, the height is 12 and the base is 7.
7 times 12=84/2=42 times 4=168!!!!!!

Answer 28

see that shape i shaded? that's the square that has area 49... so each side of the square must be 7.