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When you see a picture of a right pyramid with a regular polygon base how do you identify its height and its slant height?
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Its vertical height is that of the perpendicular from the centre of the base to the apex; the slant height is the length of the sloping "corner" between two faces.
The height of a regular pyramid is the vertical distance from the center of base to the top and is usually shown with a line perpendicular to the base, denoted with a right angle to the base.
The slant height it the height of the lateral face (the triangles) from the edge of the base to the top of the pyramid. It is the height of the triangle, not the pyramid itself.
The slant height will also be the hypotenuse of a right angle formed from the altitude of the pyramid and the distance from the center of the base to the edge.
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How do you use regular polygon in a sentence?
i drew a picture using a regular polygon for a dogs head
What are faces of a congruent regular polygon?
A regular polygon has equal sides and angles. A polygon has a surface area but a polyhedron has many faces as for example a pyramid.
Does a regular pyramid have a regular polygon as its base and a vertex over the base's center?
Yes
A regular pyramid has a regular polygon as its base and vertex over the base's center?
Yes.
What two dimensional shapes make up the net afor a pyramid?
A polygon with n sides, and n triangles, where n ≥ 3. Most commonly, the polygon at the base is a triangle or a square. If the base polygon is regular and the pyramid is a right pyramid (ie apex above the centre of the basal polygon), the triangles will be isosceles.
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