Make four planes respectively through the four vertices of the regular tetrahedron ABCD. They are parallel to each other and the distance between them is 1. Find the volume of the regular tetrahedron and make your result accurate to two decimal places.
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Viewing a tetrahedron through opposite edges, we have, along with the 4 planes
From this, we see that the edge length is 1 0 , and the volume is
1 2 1 2 ( 1 0 ) 3 = 3 . 7 2 6 7 8 . . .