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Geometry Level 4

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.


The answer is 3.73.

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2 solutions

Michael Mendrin
Mar 5, 2020

Viewing a tetrahedron through opposite edges, we have, along with the 4 planes

From this, we see that the edge length is 10 \sqrt{10} , and the volume is

1 12 2 ( 10 ) 3 = 3.72678... \dfrac{1}{12}\sqrt{2} (\sqrt{10})^3 = 3.72678...

First of all, you should put this regular tetrahedron into the cube FEGH-F'G'E'H' and satisfy that a coincides with E, B coincides with G, F coincides with' C, Dcoincides with H'. Then connect the midpoints Y,E'F' and X, H,H' of EF, which will form a plane. other planes can be made on the basis of it(moreover, by using vectors, we can prove that this scheme is unique.).After finishing the above work, the problem becomes easy.

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