Question

A square pyramid and its net are shown below. What is the surface area of the pyramid?

17 cm
16 cm
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square centimeters
17 cm
16 cm
...15 sm
15 cm.

Answer 1

Check the picture below.

so the area of it, is really the area of a 16x16 square and four triangles with a base of 16 and a height of 15.

`\stackrel{ \textit{\LARGE Areas}}{\stackrel{ square }{(16)(16)}~~ + ~~\stackrel{ \textit{four triangles} }{4\left[\cfrac{1}{2}(16)(15) \right]}}\implies 256~~ + ~~480\implies \text{\LARGE 736}~cm^2`