Question

A square pyramid has a base area of 36ft2 the pyramids total surface area is 144ft2 what is the area of each triangular face?

Answer 1

so a square pyramid is like the pyramids in egypt so
surface area of pyhraid=base+4 triangles
surface area=144
baswe=36
subsitute
144=36+4 times triangles
subtract 36 from both sides
108=4 triggles
divide by 4
27=trignels

the area of 1 triangle is 27 ft^2