When three squares are joined at their vertices to form a right triangle, the combined area of the two smaller squares is the sa
me as the area of the largest square. Which three squares will support this statement?
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notice this one, its base is a 0.4x0.4 square, and the triangular faces have a base of 0.4 and an altitude or height of 5.
so we can simply get the area of the base and all four triangular faces and sum them up, and that's the surface area of the pyramid.