What are platonic solids and what do they look like?

Answer 1

The five Platonic solids are regular polyhedra. They are convex shapes which are created from regular polygonal faces, such that the number of faces meeting at each face is the same.

The five are:

1. tetrahedron - 4 triangular faces;
   
2. hexahedron (or cube - 6 square faces;
3. octahedron - 8 triangular faces,
4. dodecahedron - 12 pentagonal faces
5. icosahedron - 20 triangular faces.

To see their images, search Google for Platonic Solids.