A stainless steel patio heater is a square pyramid. The length of one side of the base is 20.8 inches.The slant height of the pyramid is 89.1inch.What is the height of the pyramid?
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A stainless steel patio heater is a square pyramid. The length of one side of the base is The slant height of the pyramid is What is the height of the pyramid?
the slant height is the hypotenuse of a right triangle
... consisting of the height, slant height and half of the diagonal of the base
89.1^2 = h^2 + (20.8 √2 / 2)^2
... consisting of the height, slant height and half of the diagonal of the base
89.1^2 = h^2 + (20.8 √2 / 2)^2