Question

What is the surface area of this rectangular pyramid?

Answer 1

Answer:

304m^2

Step-by-step explanation:

First find the surface area of the base by multiplying the length by the width.

(12m) (8m)= 96m^2

Second, find the surface area of the front and back triangles using the formula 1/2 (base) (height). Use the length for the base.

1/2 (12m) (10m)= 60m^2

Next, find the surface area of the side triangles using the formula 1/2 (base) (height). Use the width as the base.

1/2 (8m) (11m)= 44m^2

Last, add the surface area of each section. Make sure you add the area of each face.(we only solved for 1 of the front/ back triangles and 1 of the side triangles) To make it easier to understand I wrote out an equation to show how I added the surface areas.

base=a, front/ back triangles= b, side triangles=c

SA= a + 2b +2c  or SA= a +b +b +c +c

Using one of the equations above solve for the total surface area.

SA= (96m^2) + (60m^2) +(60m^2) +(44m^2) +(44m^2)

or

SA= (96m^2) + 2(60m^2) +2(44m^2)

SA=  (96m^2) +(120m^2) +(88m^2)

SA= 304m^2