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Algebra II: Living on the Edge

by Texas Instruments

Overview

Students find the edge length of an octahedron when given its volume.

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Key Steps

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    Students build a solution to a rather complex problem—finding the edge length of an octahedron given its volume—by solving two simpler problems.

    First, students find a formula for the edge length of a square given its area.