Question
Shawntelle is solving a problem involving a triangular pyramid. You hear her say that "bee" is equal to 24 inches. How can you tell if she is talking about the base area B of the pyramid o about the base b of the triangle?
Answers
R_scott
area is measured in square inches
Robin
so then it would be base b of the triangle?
Robin
is that right??
Writeacher
R_scott is telling you that the measure of <b>square inches</b> applies only to <b>area</b>.
Which do you think is correct?
Which do you think is correct?
Anonymous
Well 24 is not a squared number because there isn’t a number times itself that equals 24 so I said base b of the triangle.
Writeacher
As R_scott wrote, "area is measured in square inches."
You need the answer that has the word "area" in it!!
You need the answer that has the word "area" in it!!
Robin
Okay thank you