The poetry club had its first bake sale, and they made $79.35. the club members are planning to have 4 more bake sales. leslie said, "if we make the same amount at each bake sale, we’ll earn $3,967.50." peggy said, "no way, leslie! we’ll earn $396.75 after five bake sales." use estimation to peggy explain why leslie’s reasoning is inaccurate. show your reasoning using words, numbers, or pictures.

the answer is:

the lateral area is equal to

to find the lateral area of the square pyramid, first we need to find the perimeter of the base, and then, find the lateral area using the following formulas:

where,

s, is the base length

slant height, is the height of a the side of the pyramid

we are given:

now, calculating the perimeter of the base, we have:

then, calculating the lateral area:

hence, we have that the lateral area is equal to

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