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Slicing of 3-d Objects

The document contains a worksheet with 12 questions about identifying cross sections of 3D geometric shapes like pyramids, prisms, and butter. Students are asked to identify cross sections from options and describe dimensions and properties of cross sections formed by slicing the 3D shapes with a plane.

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Slicing of 3-d Objects

The document contains a worksheet with 12 questions about identifying cross sections of 3D geometric shapes like pyramids, prisms, and butter. Students are asked to identify cross sections from options and describe dimensions and properties of cross sections formed by slicing the 3D shapes with a plane.

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Slicing 3-Dimensional Figures


1. Which figure below could be the cross section of the pyramid to the right?
a) b) c)

2. Which figure below could be the cross section shown to the right?
a) b) c)

3. Which figure below could be the cross section shown to the right?
a) b) c)

4. Which figure below could be the cross section shown to the right?
a) b) c)

5. Which figure could be the cross section shown to the right?


a) b) c)

6. The area of the cross section shown is 96 yd2. What is


the height of the pyramid? The figure is not drawn to scale.
7. Which of the following two-dimensions figures shows the dimensions of the
vertical cross section shown?
a) b) c)

8. Which of the following two-dimensional figures shows the dimensions of


the horizontal cross section shown?
a) b) c)

9. Describe what the vertical cross section of the given rectangular prism looks like. Not that the figure is not
drawn to scale.
a) The vertical cross section is a right rectangular prism.
b) The vertical cross section is a rectangle.
c) The vertical cross section is a square.

10. John is taking cooking lessons. He is slicing butter for the meal he is preparing. Using the figure, describe the
vertical cross section which is created when the butter, the three-dimensional figure, is sliced by the knife, the
plane. Note that the figure is not drawn to scale.
a) The vertical cross section is a square. The dimensions are the
Length from the front of the prism to the back and the width of the prism.
b) The vertical cross section is a rectangle. The dimensions are the width from
The left side of the prism to the right side and the height of the prism.
c) The vertical cross section is a rectangle. The dimensions are the length from
The front of the prism to the back and the width of the prism.

11. What are the dimensions of the vertical cross section formed when slicing
the right rectangular prism with the plane? Note that the figure is not drawn to scale.
a) 2 cm x 10 cm
b) 2 cm x 6 cm
c) 6 cm x 10 cm

12. What are the dimensions of the vertical cross section shown?
a) 3 in x 6 in
b) 3 in x 5 in
c) 6 in x 5 in
What are the dimensions of the vertical cross section perpendicular to the one shown?
a) 6 in x 5 in
b) 3 in x 5 in
c) 3 in x 6 in

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