Tuesday, December 15, 2009

What do you call ';a space figure with five or more faces. Its two bases are congruent and parallel?

My niece is doing this Math crossword puzzles and she need help on this problem. Would appreciate the help. ThanksWhat do you call ';a space figure with five or more faces. Its two bases are congruent and parallel?
I hope you are talking in 3 dimensions, only.


Ther is a nice formula after you count the number of faces (F), edges (E) %26amp; vertices (V) or points


F - E+ V = 2.


It is called Schlafli's formula.


For 3D, a minimum of 4 vertices is required. Simplest, tetrahedron has 4 each of faces %26amp; vertices; so it has 6 edges. For a cube it is F=6, E=12, V=8.


For a triangular prism (cube is a rectangular prism too), F=5,E=9,V=6.


What do you call ';a space figure with five or more faces. Its two bases are congruent and parallel?
A wretched beasty.
Sounds like a prism to me.

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