Question

The height of one solid limestone square pyramid is 24 m. A similar solid limestone square pyramid has a height of 30 m. The volume of the larger pyramid is 16,000 m3. Determine each of the following, showing all your work and reasoning.
a) The scale factor of the smaller pyramid to the larger pyramid in simplest form.

Answer 1

The scale factor of two similar solids is found by dividing one linear measurement of one solid by the corresponding measurement of the other solid.
You are told what the two heights are. Those are linear measurements.

Answer 2

so am i dividing 24 by 30 ?

Answer 3

Correct, and then reduce the fraction.

Answer 4

4/5 ?

Answer 5

Correct.