Asked by Marlo
What is the fomula to find the volume of a hexagonal pyramid?
Answers
Answered by
Ms. Sue
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HexagonalPyramid.html
Answered by
Reiny
The volume of any "pyramid" is
1/3(base)(height)
The base of a hexagon is made up of 6 equal equilateral triangles.
If you know the side of the hexagon that is easy to calculate.
BTW, if the side of the hexagon is 'a'
then each triangle has area (√3/4)(a^2)
1/3(base)(height)
The base of a hexagon is made up of 6 equal equilateral triangles.
If you know the side of the hexagon that is easy to calculate.
BTW, if the side of the hexagon is 'a'
then each triangle has area (√3/4)(a^2)