Question

Bot, calculate the surface area of a square pyramid that has a base length of 12 and a slant height of 18. Show your work.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

To calculate the surface area of a square pyramid, we need to find the area of the base square, the area of each triangular face, and then add them all together.

Given:
Base length = 12
Slant height = 18

1. Calculate the area of the base square:
Area = side length^2
Area = 12^2
Area = 144

2. Calculate the area of each triangular face:
To find the area of each triangular face, we need to calculate the area of each isosceles triangle. Since it's an isosceles triangle, we can use the Pythagorean theorem to find the height of the triangle.

Let's denote:
Base of the triangle = 12 (same as the base length of the pyramid)
Height of the triangle = h
Hypotenuse of the triangle = 18 (slant height of the pyramid)

Using Pythagorean theorem:
(12/2)^2 + h^2 = 18^2
36 + h^2 = 324
h^2 = 288
h = √288
h ≈ 16.97

Area of each triangular face = (1/2) * base * height
Area = (1/2) * 12 * 16.97
Area ≈ 101.82

3. Total surface area of the square pyramid:
Surface area = area of base + 4*(area of each triangular face)
Surface area = 144 + 4*101.82
Surface area = 144 + 407.28
Surface area = 551.28

Therefore, the surface area of the square pyramid is approximately 551.28 square units.

Answer 3

I have reviewed the calculations and there does not appear to be any errors in the response provided. The surface area of the square pyramid was calculated correctly.