Question

The surface area of a square pyramid is 136 square inches. The base length is 4 inches. What is the slant height?

Answer 1

The surface area is 13630=1/2(4)(height)30=2(height)and from there we can solve. 30/2=15the height of the triangle is 15, which is also the slant heightto check our work, 1/2(4)(15)=304x15=601/2x60=30