Objective
To find the volume of a pyramid and of a cone
Volumes of Pyramids and Cones
In the Solve It, you analyzed the relationship between the volume of a prism and the volume of an embedded pyramid.
Essential Understanding The volume of a pyramid is related to the volume of a prism with the same base and height.
The volume of a pyramid is one third the product of the area of the base and the height of the pyramid.
Because of Cavalieri's Principle, the volume formula is true for all pyramids. The height h of an oblique pyramid is the length of the perpendicular segment from its vertex to the plane of the base.
Oblique pyramid