2018 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 10
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In the rectangular parallelepiped shown, = , = , and = . Point is the midpoint of . What is the volume of the rectangular pyramid with base and apex ?
Solution 1
Consider the cross-sectional plane and label its area . Note that the volume of the triangular prism that encloses the pyramid is , and we want the rectangular pyramid that shares the base and height with the triangular prism. The volume of the pyramid is , so the answer is . (AOPS12142015)
Solution 2
We can start by finding the total volume of the parallelepiped. It is , because a rectangular parallelepiped is a rectangular prism.
Next, we can consider the wedge-shaped section made when the plane cuts the figure. We can find the volume of the triangular pyramid with base and apex . The area of is . Since is given to be , we have that is . Using the formula for the volume of a triangular pyramid, we have . Also, since the triangular pyramid with base and apex has the exact same dimensions, it has volume as well.
The original wedge we considered in the last step has volume , because it is half of the volume of the parallelepiped. We can subtract out the parts we found to have . Thus, the volume of the figure we are trying to find is . This means that the correct answer choice is .
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NOTE: For those who think that it isn't a rectangular prism, please read the problem. It says "rectangular parallelepiped." If a parallelepiped is such that all of the faces are rectangles, it is a rectangular prism.
Solution 3
If you look carefully, you will see that on the either side of the pyramid in question, there are two congruent tetrahedra. The volume of one is , with its base being half of one of the rectangular prism's faces and its height being half of one of the edges, so its volume is . We can obtain the answer by subtracting twice this value from the diagonal half prism, or
Solution 4
You can calculate the volume of the rectangular pyramid by using the formula, . is the area of the base, , and is equal to . The height, , is equal to the height of triangle drawn from to .
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Solution 5
We can start by identifying the information we need. We need to find the area of rectangle and the height of rectangular prism .
In order to find the area of we can use the Pythagorean Theorem. We find that , so the area of rectangle . We shall refer to this as .
In order to find the height of rectangular prism , we can examine triangle . We can use the Geometric Mean Theorem to find that when an altitude is dropped from point is split into segments of length and . Taking the geometric mean of these numbers, we find that the altitude has length . This is also the height of the rectangular prism, which we shall refer to as .
Plugging and into the formula we find that the volume is . The answer is .
Solution 6
We start by setting the formula for the volume of a rectangular pyramid: . By the Pythagorean Theorem, we know that . Therefore, the area of the base is . Next, we would like to know the height of the pyramid. We can observe that the altitude from point in is parallel to the height of the pyramid and therefore congruent because those two altitudes are on the same plane of base . From this, we only need to find the altitude from point in and plug it into our formula for the volume of a rectangular pyramid. This is easy because we already know the area of and the base from point , so all we need to do is divide: . Now all we need to do is plug in all our known values into the volume formula:
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Solution 7
Using the Pythagorean Theorem, we can easily find that . Quickly computing, we find the area of the base, . Now we can make the following adjustments to our 3d shape as shown in the diagram. All we need now is to solve for the height, or . We can set up to following equation due to our knowledge of altitudes(of the hypotenuse)in right triangles. We can set up the following equations: Thus
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