Pyramids in Prism

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Carve up a rectangular prism into three rectangular pyramids. When the prism is a cube, it's obvious that the pyramids are congruent. Why are they of equal volume when the prism is generalized?

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Jaime Guerrero López — November 14, 2015 - 8:00 PM

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