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Prisms have 2 bases while a pyramid has 1 base

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What are some differences between a pyramid and cone?

A cone has a round base and a pyramid has a base with 3 or more angles.


What 3d shape has more then 1 vertex?

There are an infinite number of shapes. A tetrahedron (triangular pyramid), a square-based pyramid, a pentagonal pyramid, a hexagonal pyramid, etc. A triangular prism, a rectangular prism (cuboid), a pentagonal prism, etc are some examples.


Is a hexahedron a prism or a pyramid?

Some hexahedra are prisms or pyramids.


What is the difference between prism and prymed?

I assume you mean between prism and pyramid. I suggest you look at some picture of prisms and pyramids, to get it perfectly clear. In any case, a prism has the same horizontal cross section from the bottom the top. On the other hand, the lines of a pyramid get together towards the top, to a point. If you take a horizontal cross section, at the base it will be larger, but the closer you get to the top, the smaller such a cross section will be.


What are some differences between rectangular and triangular prisms?

The rectangular prism has a rectangular cross-section; the triangular prism has a triangular cross-section. Any other difference would be related to this fact - for example, differences in the formulae for the surface area, for the volume, etc.


What 3D shape has eight sides?

an octagonal prism * * * * * No. An octagonal prism has 10 faces. Some of the possible solutions are: A heptagon based pyramid, A hexagonal prism, A rectangular based dipyramid.


Name some shapes that have sides and start hex?

Hexagon. Hexagonal prism. Hexagonal pyramid. Hexahedron.


Which shape has some triangular faces and six vertices?

It could either be a triangular prism or a pentagonal pyramid


Six of my faces are rectangular faces i have 18 edges and have 12 vertices?

Hexagonal Prism NOT a Hegagonal Pyramid like some people confuse it as. Hegagonal Pyramid


What solid figure has 10 faces in all?

A decahedron. Some decahedron shapes are a nonagon-based pyramid, an octagon based prism, or a pentagon based di-pyramid.


What is the other name for a pyramid?

trangular prism NO! A prism has two n-polygonal faces (or bases) "separated" by a set of n rectangles. A pyramid has one n-polygonal face (base), with n triangular faces rising to an apex. Some pyramids do have specific names but in general, they do not.


What are some difference between cone and a prism?

the difference between a cone and a prism is that a cone has no edges and only one vertex and a prism has both edges and vertexes.