Question

Please help ASAP!!! Find the surface area of a square pyramid that has a slant of 6 feet and it’s 3 feet wide

45ft
81ft
36ft
72ft

Answer 1

If you plug in the value the answer should be A

Answer 2

A

Explanation:

Okay cool, so basically the formula is a^2 + 2a square root a square over 4 + h square.

We have to us e the Pythagorus theorem to find the height.

3^2 + h^2 = 36

9 + h^2 = 36

h^2 = 27

h ~ 5

Let's plug in the values from the formula.

The closet answer should be A