Homework Help: geometry

Posted by riza on Monday, August 6, 2012 at 8:51pm.

A rectangular pyramid has the same height and base of a rectangular container where volume is 300 m^3 (cubic meter). what is the volume of that rectangular pyramid?

geometry - Reiny, Monday, August 6, 2012 at 10:33pm
Since a pyramid has a volume 1/3 of that of a cube having the same base and height as the pyramid, the volume of the pyramid must be
(1/3)(300)
or 100 m^3

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