
is a polyhedron whose base and top are congruent polygons and whose other faces i.e. lateral faces, are parallelograms in shape.


Important Questions on Visualising Solid Shapes
A hexagonal prism has a hexagon as its _____. (base/top)

A rectangular pyramid has a _____ as its base.

For any polyhedron, _____, where stands for number of faces, stands for number of vertices and stands for number of edges, and this relationship is called Euler's formula.

Tabulate the number of Faces (), Edges () and Vertices () for the following polyhedron.
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Cube |

Tabulate the number of Faces (), Edges () and Vertices () for the following polyhedron.
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Octahedron |

Tabulate the number of Faces (), Edges () and Vertices () for the following polyhedron.
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Prism with square base |

Tabulate the number of Faces (), Edges () and Vertices () for the following polyhedron.
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Pyramid with square base |

Tabulate the number of Faces (), Edges () and Vertices () for the following polyhedron.
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Cuboid |
