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Find the volume of the solid shown above inNote: The upper and lower bases are squares.
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My approach is to divide the solid into two. One is a cuboid and the other is a frustum of a regular pyramid. The volume of the cuboid is 8 × 8 × 2 = 1 2 8 m 3 .
The formula for the volume of a frustum of a regular pyramid is given by v = 3 h ( A 1 + A 2 + A 1 × A 2 ) where A 1 and A 2 are the area of the bases of the frustum of the regular pyramid. So the volume of the frustum of the regular pyramid is
v = 3 4 ( 8 2 + 2 2 + 8 2 + 2 2 = 1 1 2 )
The desired volume is 128+112 = 240~\text{m^3}