Octahedron in a Rectangular Prism
Source: 2015 AMC 10B #17
February 26, 2015
geometry3D geometryoctahedronprismpyramidAMC
Problem Statement
The centers of the faces of the right rectangular prism shown below are joined to create an octahedron, What is the volume of the octahedron?
[asy]
import three; size(2inch);
currentprojection=orthographic(4,2,2);
draw((0,0,0)--(0,0,3),dashed);
draw((0,0,0)--(0,4,0),dashed);
draw((0,0,0)--(5,0,0),dashed);
draw((5,4,3)--(5,0,3)--(5,0,0)--(5,4,0)--(0,4,0)--(0,4,3)--(0,0,3)--(5,0,3));
draw((0,4,3)--(5,4,3)--(5,4,0));
label("3",(5,0,3)--(5,0,0),W);
label("4",(5,0,0)--(5,4,0),S);
label("5",(5,4,0)--(0,4,0),SE);
[/asy]