Geometry problem 4 by Dhaval Furia

Geometry Level pending

The base of a pyramid is a square, each of the other four sides is an equilateral triangle, and length of each side is 20 20 . Find the vertical height of the pyramid.

12 12 10 2 10 \sqrt{2} 8 3 8 \sqrt{3} 5 5 5 \sqrt{5}

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Chew-Seong Cheong
May 22, 2020

The median of the equilateral triangle face 10 3 10\sqrt 3 , half the width of the square base 10 10 , and the height of the pyramid h h form a right triangle with the median of the equilateral triangle as the hypotenuse. By Pythagorean theorem ,

h 2 = ( 10 3 ) 2 1 0 2 = 200 h = 200 = 10 2 \begin{aligned} h^2 & = (10\sqrt 3)^2 - 10^2 = 200 \\ \implies h & = \sqrt{200} = 10\sqrt 2 \end{aligned}

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