## anonymous 4 years ago What is the volume of a triangular prism with a height of 7 meters and a base that is an equilateral triangle with sides of 2 meters?

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2. anonymous

Sure, do you know that volume is area of the base times height?

3. anonymous

Do you know how to get the area of a triangle?

4. anonymous

If algebra is right, $$7 \sqrt{3} \; m^3$$should be the answer.

5. anonymous

Yes, I got 12.12, which is the same. Because you use hypothagorous theroem....

6. anonymous

yea i do

7. anonymous

thanks

8. anonymous

@order: what is " hypothagorous theroem"?

9. anonymous

I did not get it.... any one can explain?

10. anonymous

haha, sorry. Pythagorous theorem... My teacher used to call it Hypothagorous theorem... Can't get it out now!

11. anonymous

lol, you should sue that teacher :P

12. anonymous

Yes! It's stuck. And I can't even spell pythagoras correctly :S

13. anonymous

lol

14. anonymous

perpendicular is sqrt 3... if you ll multiply it with 7 then it'll give area of plane?

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Area of the base * Height * 1/3

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sorry

17. anonymous

so that = 21?

18. anonymous

I got it.............. HATS OFF to @order God bless you

19. anonymous

http://www.aaastudy.com/geo79_x1.htm Actually, we may all be wrong...?

20. anonymous

It's just what FFM said.

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And what I thought before I got confused. @waqassaddique I think you got confused with a pyramid and a triangular prism.

23. anonymous

Yes. Sorry. I was confused for a second between a pyramid and prism.. Won't happen again! :)

24. anonymous

yes...... No problem @order, humans commit mistakes so we did

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It's that answer because the area of the base is the square root of 3 and 7 is the height.

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@order : legend of mathematics...well done... thanks for your time for making my dull mind to understand

28. anonymous

No problem! You might just have a tired head :p not a dull one.

29. anonymous

may be