The centroid of the rectangular cuboid is the point, where three axes joining the faces' centers intersect one another.
If the cuboid is divided into 6 pyramids such that their bases are the faces of the cuboid and their vertices are at the centroid as shown above, will these 6 pyramids have the same volume?
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The centroid of the cuboid is also the midpoint of the axes between the faces' centers, so the height of the pyramid will be half of either width, length, or height of the cuboid, depending on their base orientation.
For instance, if the cuboid has the green base, with width w and length l , and height h , the pyramid with the green base will have the volume of 3 1 × w × l × 2 h = 6 w l h or equal to one-sixth of the cuboid's volume.
Similarly, for the pink-based pyramid, the volume = 3 1 × w × h × 2 l = 6 w l h .
And finally, for the orange-based pyramid, the volume = 3 1 × h × l × 2 w = 6 w l h .
Therefore, all the six pyramids have the same volume.