Surface area of pyramids

Sample Surface area of pyramids questions

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1. Question 12 marksGrade 3-4
   A pyramid has a square base with sides of $2$ cm. Each triangular face has a slant height of $6$ cm. Calculate the total surface area of the pyramid.

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• Forgets to halve base times height when finding a triangular face's area within a pyramid

  Calculated each triangular face as $2 \times 6$ instead of $\frac{1}{2} \times 2 \times 6$

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There are 12 self-marking GCSE and IGCSE Maths questions on Surface area of pyramids, written for AQA, Pearson, OCR, Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics (0580), Cambridge IGCSE (9-1) Mathematics (0980) across Foundation and Higher and Extended tier. Each one is marked instantly and has a full worked solution.

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