Question

Find the surface area of the square pyramid

Answer 1

well, is very plain vanilla.

notice, the square pyramid has a square on its base, thus is called that, the base is 4x4 in area.

it also has 4 triangular faces, each triangle has a base of 4 and an altitude or height of 6.

sum up the area of the base and the triangular faces, and that's the total area of the pyramid.


`\bf \stackrel{\textit{square's area}}{(4\cdot 4)}~~+~~\stackrel{\textit{4 triangular faces' area}}{4\left[(1)/(2)(4)(6) \right]}`