A manufacturer is designing special packaging for a
product in the shape of a truncated pyramid. A truncated pyramid is a pyramid with the top cut off. The model he is building is shown in the figure with the measurements. The bases are not regular figures. The lateral sides are trapezoids. The height of each trapezoidal face is 12 cm.
Determine the amount of material needed to build the model (assuming no overlap on the sides).

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A manufacturer is designing special packaging for a
product in the shape of a truncated pyramid. A truncated pyramid is a pyramid with the top cut off. The model he is building is shown in the figure with the measurements. The bases are not regular figures. The lateral sides are trapezoids. The height of each trapezoidal face is 12 cm.
Determine the amount of material needed to build the model (assuming no overlap on the sides).

anonymous · Answer

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wach · Answer

Are you finding the volume or surface area of the figure? I can't tell from the question's wording, unfortunately.

wach · Answer

Since it's packaging, I'll just go w/perimeter. Rightio, let's start: 
First, let's find the SA(surface area) of the 2 bases. They're simple, because they're triangles. 
To find area, multiply the two legs (nonhypoteneuses) by each other and divide by two. So:

wach · Answer

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