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klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:04 AM
I'm in 8th grade and my geo teacher gave this as a assigment what I'm doing is making it out of 2 by 6 pieces of paper if any one can help me please do this is so *censored* evil :confused::confused::confused::confused: ty if you can

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klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:05 AM
*takes out a chewy bar and eats it while waiting*
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ISneezeFunny
Oct 26, 2008, 11:07 AM
Well, the surface area of a tetrahedron is 4*(area of each side).

Since a tetrahedron is made of 4 triangles, 4*(1/2*base*height)

The volume is simply (1/3)*(area of base)*(height)

As far as making a tetrahedron

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/images/tetrahedron-model.gif

Not sure what you mean about "5 tetrahedron"

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:07 AM
*takes out anthor chewy bar and eats that one*
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klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:08 AM
What I mean bye 5 tetrahedron is show as my image 5 interlocking triangles

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:09 AM
*picks up trash from chewy bars and takes out anthor one*
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klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:11 AM
*eats last of chewy bars then goes and orders a cheese pizza*

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:13 AM
*take out mp3 and starts listening waiting for help*
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Capuchin
Oct 26, 2008, 11:17 AM
what i mean bye 5 tetrahedron is show as my image 5 interlocking triangles

Are you sure? There are no 5 sided isohedra. (tetra means 4, it's from greek)

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:19 AM
Really? Well try explaing that to my teacher let me give you a link I found for it

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:20 AM
Here one url I found let me find the other
Origami Geometric Constructions (http://kahuna.merrimack.edu/~thull/fit.html)

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:21 AM
Here the other url
Instructions for making the compound of 5 tetrahedrons (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/pics/origami/5tet/)

Capuchin
Oct 26, 2008, 11:23 AM
That's a "compound of 5 tetrahedrons" not a "5 tetrahedron"! Anyway now we are on the same page!

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:24 AM
Okay so can u help meh?

klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:24 AM
And I'm sorry about confusing both of us
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klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:28 AM
*sees pizza guy coming and goes to get cash for pizza*
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klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 11:47 AM
*leaves to go to Google to find it*
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klaus13239
Oct 26, 2008, 12:39 PM
Ronly I am so ronly