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Mobile App Chapter 12: Q7. (page 485)
Sketch the following pyramid. Then find its lateral area.
A regular triangular pyramid with base edge 4 and slant height 6.
Short Answer
Expert verified
The sketch of the pyramid will be as shown
The lateral area is 36 square units.
Step by step solution
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Step 1. Given information.
A regular triangular pyramid with base edge 4 and slant height 6.
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Step 2. Sketch the pyramid.
Now to draw pyramid, first draw a parallelogram for the base and sketch diagonals and then draw a vertical segment at the point where the diagonal intersects and then join the vertex to the base vertices,
Thus, the pyramid can be obtained as:
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Step 3. Interpretation.
Form the above graph and side and height it can be observed that the lateral area of pyramid is 36 square unit.
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