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Scouts have a tent in the shape of a regular quadrilateral pyramid with a side of the base of 4 m and a height of 3 m. Find the container's radius r (and height h) so that they can hide the largest possible treasure.
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You need to know the following knowledge to solve this word math problem:
- geometry
- similarity of triangles
- algebra
- quadratic equation
- equation
- expression of a variable from the formula
- arithmetic
- square root
- square (second power, quadratic)
- solid geometry
- cylinder
- pyramid
- planimetrics
- Pythagorean theorem
- right triangle
- triangle
- basic functions
- maximum
- minimum
- derivation
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