So hmm notice the picture below
the pyramid itself, is really, just one regular hexagon, at the bottom
and 6 triangles, stacked up at each other at the edges
now, if you just get the area of the regular hexagon, and the 6 triangles, add them up, that'd be the total surface area of the pyramid then
now, for the triangles, well, area of a triangle is 1/2 bh, as you'd know, and you have both
Answer:
first we find the common difference.....do this by subtracting the first term from the second term. (9 - 3 = 6)...so basically, ur adding 6 to every number to find the next number.
we will be using 2 formulas....first, we need to find the 34th term (because we need this term for the sum formula)
an = a1 + (n-1) * d
n = the term we want to find = 34
a1 = first term = 3
d = common difference = 6
now we sub
a34 = 3 + (34-1) * 6
a34 = 3 + (33 * 6)
a34 = 3 + 198
a34 = 201
now we use the sum formula
Sn = (n (a1 + an)) / 2
S34 = (34(3 + 201))/2
s34 = (34(204)) / 2
s34 = 6936/2
s34 = 3468 <=== the sum of the first 34 terms:
Answer=53,040
Explanation: $52,000*0.02=1,040
52,000+1,040=53,040