Architecture The entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is a square pyramid with a height of 21.64 m. What is the approximate volume of the Louvre Pyramid?
The area of the base of the pyramid is
How is this similar to finding the volume of a prism?
In both cases, you need the area of the base and the height.
The volume is about
GRIDDED REPONSE
What is the volume in cubic feet of a square pyramid with base edges 40 ft and slant height 25 ft?
How do you use the slant height?
The slant height is the length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle.
Use the slant height to find the height of the pyramid.
Step 1 Find the height of the pyramid.
Step 2 Find the volume of the pyramid.
The volume of the pyramid is