find the volume of a triangular prism in ruby

math, geometry, volume, triangular prism, ruby

function to calculate volume of a triangular prism

def triangular_prism_volume(base, height, length) area = 0.5 * base * height # calculate area of triangle face volume = area * length # calculate volume of triangular prism return volume # return volume value end

example usage

puts triangular_prism_volume(3, 4, 5) # output: 30.0

main.rb

In the above code, we define a function `triangular_prism_volume` which takes three parameters - `base`, `height`, and `length`. These parameters represent the base width, height, and length of the triangular prism respectively.

Inside the function, we first calculate the area of one of the triangular faces using the formula `0.5 * base * height`. 

Then, we calculate the volume of the prism by multiplying the area of the triangle face with the length of the prism.

Finally, we return the volume value from the function.

We can then call this function with appropriate values to calculate the volume of any triangular prism. In the example above, we call the function with `base = 3`, `height = 4`, and `length = 5` which results in a volume of `30.0`.
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