Pyramids in Prism

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?

 

Jaime Guerrero López

 
Tipo de recurso
Actividad
Etiquetas
decomposition  formula  prism  pyramid  volume 
Grupo destino (edad)
10 – 19+
Idioma
English
 
 
 
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