Surface Areas of Pyramids and Cones
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Lesson Quiz
1. Find the slant height of a square pyramid with base edges 12 cm and
altitude 8 cm. 10 cm
2. Find the lateral area of the regular
square pyramid to the right.
56 in.2
3. Find the surface area of the pyramid to the right
whose base is a regular hexagon. Round to
the nearest whole number. 1517 ft2
4. Find the surface area of a cone with radius 8 cm and slant height 17
cm in terms of . 200 cm2
5. The roof of a building is shaped like a cone with diameter 40 ft and
height 20 ft. Find the area of the roof. Round to the nearest whole
1777 ft2
number.
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Check Skills You’ll Need
(For help, go to Lessons 1-9 and 10-1.)
Find the area of each figure. Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.
1. square - side length 7 cm
2. circle - diameter 15 in.
A = r2 = (7.5)2 = 56.25 ≈ 176.7 in.2
A = s2 = 72 = 49 cm2
3. circle - radius 10 mm
4. rectangle - 3 ft by 1 ft
A = lw = (3)(1) = 3 ft2
A = r2 = (10)2 = 100 ≈ 314.2 mm2
5. rectangle - 14 in. by 11 in.
6. triangle - base 11 cm, height 5 cm
A = lw = (14)(11) = 154 in.2
A = ½ bh = ½ (11)(5) = 27.5 cm2
7. equilateral triangle - side length 8 in.
A = ½ bh = ½ (8)(4
3) = 16
3 ≈ 27.7 in.2
Check Skills You’ll Need
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Notes
The volume of a three-dimensional figure is the
number of nonoverlapping unit cubes of a given size
that will exactly fill the interior.
Cavalieri’s principle says that if two threedimensional figures have the same height and have
the same cross-sectional area at every level, they
have the same volume.
The area of each
shaded cross section
below is 6 cm2. Since
the prisms have the
same height, their
volumes must be the
same.
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Finding Volume of a Rectangular Prism
Find the volume of the prism below.
The area of the base B =
V = Bh
w = 3  5 = 15.
Use the formula for volume.
= 15 • 5
Substitute 15 for B and 5 for h.
= 75
Simplify.
The volume of the rectangular prism is 75 in.3.
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Finding Volume of a Triangular Prism
Find the volume of the prism below.
The prism is a right triangular prism with triangular bases.
The base of the triangular prism is a right triangle where one leg is the
base and the other leg is the altitude.
Use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the length of the other leg.
292 – 202 =
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841  400 =
441  21
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The area B of the base is 2 bh = 2 (20)(21) = 210. Use the area of the
base to find the volume of the prism.
V = Bh
Use the formula for the volume of a prism.
= 210 • 40
Substitute.
= 8400
Simplify.
The volume of the triangular prism is 8400 m3.
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Finding Volume of a Cylinder
Find the volume of the cylinder below. Leave your answer in
terms of .
The formula for the volume of a cylinder is V =
shows h and d, but you must find r.
r 2h. The diagram
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r = 2d=8
V=
=
r 2h
• 82 • 9
= 576
Use the formula for the volume of a cylinder.
Substitute.
Simplify.
The volume of the cylinder is 576
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Finding Volume of a Composite Figure
Find the volume of the composite space figure.
You can use three rectangular prisms to find the volume.
Each prism’s volume can be found using the formula V = Bh.
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(continued)
Volume of prism I = Bh = (14 • 4) • 25 = 1400
Volume of prism II = Bh = (6 • 4) • 25 = 600
Volume of prism III = Bh = (6 • 4) • 25 = 600
Sum of the volumes = 1400 + 600 + 600 = 2600
The volume of the composite space figure is 2600 cm3.
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Lesson Quiz
Find the volume of each figure to the nearest whole number.
1.
2.
3.
62 m3
1800 ft3
4.
45 in.3
5.
63 m3
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