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What is the volume of an equilateral triangular prism?

What is the volume of an equilateral triangular prism?-example-1

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actually, the "slant height" is 4, but the vertical height or "altitude" of the equilateral triangle is not 4

but anyway.....
\bf \begin{array}{cllll} \textit{height of an equilateral triangle}\\\\ h=\cfrac{sāˆš(3)}{2}\\ ----------\\ \textit{area of an equilateral triangle}\\\\ A=\cfrac{s^2āˆš(3)}{4} \end{array}\qquad s=\textit{length of one side}

and the volume, is the area of the triangle, times the length, so, whatever you get for the area of the triangle * 10
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