House roof
The roof of the house has the shape of a regular quadrangular pyramid with a base edge 17 m. How much m2 is needed to cover the roof if the roof pitch is 57° and we calculate 11% of waste, connections, and overlapping of area roof?
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- solid geometry
- pyramid
- planimetrics
- right triangle
- area of a shape
- triangle
- goniometry and trigonometry
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