An illustration shows a slide slice where a triangular plane with a square frame is inserted into a 3 D pyramid through one of the edges. The plane is positioned till the apex is reached and the middle triangular portion of the pyramid is highlighted.
What two-dimensional shape is created by slicing a right rectangular pyramid perpendicular to the base?
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Responses
rectangle
rectangle
square
square
trapezoid
trapezoid
triangle
triangle
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When slicing a right rectangular pyramid perpendicular to the base, the resulting two-dimensional shape is a triangle. This is because the slice will cut through the apex and create a triangle from the triangular faces of the pyramid.
So the correct response is:
triangle
