Orthogonal tetrahedron

Geometry Level 3

An orthogonal tetrahedron A B C P ABCP is created by cutting off one corner of a cube containing cube vertex P P . Tetrahedron's base is A B C \triangle ABC with orthocenter H H . Foot of the altitude from vertex A A is D D .

A H = 12 , H D = 3 , B H = 6 AH = 12, HD = 3, BH = 6 . The volume of the tetrahedron is V V . Find V \lfloor V \rfloor .


The answer is 207.

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1 solution

Maria Kozlowska
Sep 4, 2017

Let E , F E,F denote feet of the altitudes from B , C B,C respectively.

Tetrahedron's net looks like this:

The height of the tetrahedron is the geometric mean of A H AH and H D HD . h = A H × H D = 6 h=\sqrt{AH \times HD}=6 .

A H × H D = B H × H E H E = 6 AH \times HD = BH \times HE \Rightarrow HE = 6 .

H D A D H E B E H F C F = 1 H F = 6 21 7 , C H = 2 21 , C F = 20 21 7 \dfrac{HD}{AD} \dfrac{HE}{BE}\dfrac{HF}{CF}=1 \Rightarrow HF=6 \dfrac{\sqrt{21}}{7}, CH = 2 \sqrt{21} , CF = 20 \dfrac{\sqrt{21}}{7}

h a = 15 , h b = 12 , h c = 20 21 7 h_{a}=15, h_{b}=12, h_{c}=20 \dfrac{\sqrt{21}}{7}

To calculate area of A B C \triangle ABC we can use the formula using altitudes:

H r = ( h a 1 + h b 1 + h c 1 ) / 2 H_{r} = ( h_{a} ^{-1} + h_{b} ^{-1} + h_{c} ^{-1})/2

A r e a 1 = 4 H r ( H r h a 1 ) ( H r h b 1 ) ( H r h c 1 ) A B C = 3 60 Area ^{-1} = 4 \sqrt{H_{r} (H_{r}-h_{a} ^{-1})(H_{r}-h_{b} ^{-1})(H_{r}-h_{c} ^{-1}}) \Rightarrow \triangle ABC = 3 \sqrt{60}

V = 6 × 3 60 3 = 120 3 207.85 V = \dfrac{ 6 \times 3 \sqrt{60}}{3} = 120 \sqrt{3} \approx 207.85

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