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Geometry Level 3

Here is the three-way-view of the solid, where the height of the triangle in the front-view and left-view is 2 \sqrt{2} , and the other lengths are defined above.

Find the volume of the solid.

2 3 \dfrac{2}{3} 2 2 3 \dfrac{2\sqrt{2}}{3} 4 3 \dfrac{4}{3} 2 3 \dfrac{\sqrt{2}}{3}

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1 solution

Mark Hennings
May 12, 2020

The vertices of this tetrahedron are A ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) A\;(0,1,0) , B ( 2 , 1 , 0 ) B\;(2,1,0) , C ( 1 , 0 , 2 ) C\;(1,0,\sqrt{2}) and D ( 1 , 2 , 2 ) D\;(1,2,\sqrt{2}) . Thus the volume of the tetrahedron is the modulus of 1 6 A D ( A B × A C ) = 1 6 ( 1 1 2 ) ( ( 2 0 0 ) × ( 1 1 2 ) ) = 1 6 ( 1 1 2 ) ( 0 2 2 2 ) = 2 2 3 \tfrac16 \overrightarrow{AD} \cdot \left(\overrightarrow{AB} \times \overrightarrow{AC}\right) \; =\; \frac16\left(\begin{array}{c} 1 \\ 1 \\ \sqrt{2}\end{array}\right) \cdot \left(\left(\begin{array}{c} 2 \\ 0 \\ 0 \end{array}\right) \times \left(\begin{array}{c} 1 \\ -1 \\ \sqrt{2} \end{array}\right) \right) \; = \; \frac16 \left(\begin{array}{c} 1 \\ 1 \\ \sqrt{2}\end{array}\right) \cdot \left(\begin{array}{c} 0 \\ -2\sqrt{2} \\ -2 \end{array}\right) \; = \; -\frac{2\sqrt{2}}{3} and hence is 2 2 3 \boxed{\frac{2\sqrt{2}}{3}} Alternatively, this solid is simply a regular tetrahedron of side length 2 2 , from which the result about the volume is immediate.

@Mark Hennings Nice solution. I just upvoted. BTW can you please help me in this problem? Thanks in advance.

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