An artist has
20 triangular prisms
like the one shown. He decides to use them to
build a giant triangular
prism with a triangular base of length 5.6 m and height 6.8 m.
a) Does he have enough small prisms?
b) What is the volume of the new prism to the nearest hundredth of a metre?
Height of one prism is 1.18 m
Base is 1.4 m
Length is 1.7 m