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Find the surface area of the square pyramid, if it has a slant height of 5 m.

Find the surface area of the square pyramid, if it has a slant height of 5 m.-example-1

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first of all you can split every face of its faces into 2 right angle triangle then you are gonna find the height of that triangle by c²=a²+b²

i will be 5²=4²+b²

so b =3 (if you don't know how to solve that equation above just ask me)

okay now we have the height and base

so the are of that triangle will be 0.5 *4*3=6

so the area of right triangle is 6 and one face of pyramid faces has 2 triangles like this so the whole are will be no of faces *2*6=

4*2*6=48 m²

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