Sunday, January 20, 2013

SAT GEOM: A special regular square pyramid

Consider the hand-drawn sketch of a regular square pyramid in which all 8 edges, both base and lateral, are congruent:

(1) Explain why angle PVR is a right angle.

(2) If edges each have length e, explain why the height PT has length e/√2.

(3) Any other interesting observations?


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