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geometry senior
Problem
The rectangle below has dimensions and . Diagonals and intersect at . If triangle is cut out and removed, edges and are joined, and the figure is then creased along segments and , we obtain a triangular pyramid, all four of whose faces are isosceles triangles. Find the volume of this pyramid. 
Solution
Let (or the triangle with sides , , ) be the base of our tetrahedron. We set points and as and , respectively. Using Pythagoras, we find as . We know that the vertex of the tetrahedron () has to be of the form , where is the altitude of the tetrahedron. Since the distance from to points , , and is , we can write three equations using the distance formula: Subtracting the last two equations, we get . Solving for with a bit of effort, we eventually get , , . Since the area of a triangle is , we have the base area as . Thus, the volume is .
Final answer
594