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A square pyramid is sliced so that the cross section is perpendicular to its base. The cross section intersects the vertex of the pyramid.

What is the shape of the cross section?

Question 1 options:

Trapezoid


Triangle


Square


Pentagon

Answer 1

We have this square pyramid as shown in the picture. (Actually, a cross-section is a plane. So that, it is not fully drawn in the picture. You can see only part of it). It is given that EH⊥FG and we can easily observe that the cross-section is a triangle. It is a triangle Δ EFG.