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Find the volume of a tetrahedron with height h and base area B.
Hint: B=(ab/2)sin(theta) Also, please see the attached document for the provided diagram of the tetrahedron.

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This shows how to generate the formula for the volume of a tetrahedron.

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Volume of a Tetrahedron

To work out the volume of the tetrahedron, imagine slicing the pyramid up into a stack of triangles, each of thickness dx (a small quantity). The bottom triangle has sides of length a and b and thickness and then they steadily get smaller as they reach the top. By finding the volume of each of these shapes and adding them up, we will get the volume ...

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