someone help, A slice is made perpendicular to the base of a right rectangular pyramid but doesn't pass through the vertex. What shape is it? I think trapezoid, is that right?

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narissa · Answer

@Haseeb96

butterfield1215 · Answer

@haleyelizabeth2017

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

hmm...I'll try to help if I can :)

narissa · Answer

k if u can draw it it would be alot of help to see how to do it

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

|dw:1431532400539:dw| The line in the middle is the slice, is the placement, do you think, correct?

narissa · Answer

i don't know it says perpendicular to the base

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

It meets at a right angle

narissa · Answer

ok what shape is that?

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

I am actually not sure....

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

|dw:1431532654728:dw|let's look at it this way.  Is this a multiple choice question?

narissa · Answer

nooo

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

how do you get a trapezoid? O.o

narissa · Answer

i don't know im confused someone on here was trying to help last night and that was the answer they came up with

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

I think it is, now that I look back at what he was saying.  Listen to him, he knows his math :)

narissa · Answer

he was confused too

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

I'd say trapezoid.  I meant listen to jim lol

narissa · Answer

oh i didn't see ok so its trapezoid

narissa · Answer

can u draw it please

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

sure, I'll try

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

Wait....just look at his drawing.  It'd be easier

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

http://intermath.coe.uga.edu/dictnary/images/solids/3crssect.gif is what he posted.

narissa · Answer

ok thanks

haleyelizabeth2017 · Answer

You're welcome.  Well, I gotta go get my own school work done, so good luck :)