a pyramid as long as there is only one base more specifically a rectangular pyramid
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Two. 4 faces are triangles and the base is a square.
a square pyramid
It has 5 faces. The "quadrilateral" part of the name describes the shape of the base of the pyramid. A pyramid has 1 face for every side of the base plus an extra one for the base. Thus a quadrilateral pyramid has a quadrilateral or 4 sided shape for the base and so has 4 + 1 = 5 faces.
The simplest such shape is PYRAMID.
The geometric shape that has 1 square face and 4 triangular faces is a pyramid. A pyramid also has five vertices and eight edges. The square acts as the base for the shape on which it sits.