Question

What is the lateral area of a pyramid-shaped building that has a slant height of 210 feet and a square base 332 feet by 332 feet?

Answer 1

This is most likely a right square pyramid as it has a pyramid-shaped building and has a square base.

The formula for a right square pyramid of lateral surface area is `LA=2sl`

LA = Lateral Area
`s` = area of square
`l` = slant height

So to figure out the area of the square, we can square 332 like this `332^2` or we can multiply it twice like this `332*332` but they still give us the same answer which is `110,224`

So we now know the area of the square. Let plug all the known information into the formula.

`LA=2(110,224)(210)`
`LA=46294080`

So the lateral area of this figure is 46294080 feet square.