1: Which best describes the lateral faces of a square pyramid?
A. 4 congruent triangles
B. 4 congruent squares
C. 3 congruent triangles
D. 3 congruent rectangles
Answers
Answer:
A. 4 congruent triangles
Given : a square pyramid
To Find : Which best describes the lateral faces of a square pyramid
A. 4 congruent triangles
B. 4 congruent squares
C. 3 congruent triangles
D. 3 congruent rectangles
Solution:
pyramid : whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top and base can be any polygon like triangle , quadrilateral etc
Square pyramid has square base
so there will 4 lateral faces
Each will be Isosceles triangle
and all 4 faces will be congruent to each other
4 congruent triangles best describes the lateral faces of a square pyramid
Additional info :
3 congruent triangles describes the lateral faces of a equilateral triangle pyramid
4 congruent squares describes the lateral faces of a square prism ( basically cube )
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