Exploring Volume of Pyramids
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The diagram shows a cube with side length b.
✓ 1. Press Continue to divide the cube into six congruent right square
pyramids.
V2. The pyramid has height h = . Because the volume of the cube
is V. = bº, the volume of the pyramid is V, = 153. Press
Continue to remove the cube and examine the volume of the
pyramid.
3. Because h = h, we know that b=