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Find the volume of a prism 30 cm long and its cross-section is regular, pentagon of side 10 cm.

      

Find the volume of a prism 30 cm long and its cross-section is regular, pentagon of side 10 cm.

  

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joseph
Angle at the centre for each triangle 360/5 = 72°
Cross-section area = 5 x ½ x 10 x 10 sin 72°
=237.76 cm^2
Then the volume = 237.76 x 30
=7132.92 cm^3

joseph rimiru answered the question on October 2, 2017 at 07:58


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