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One difference: An octahedron has 8 faces, a triangular prism has 5.
An octahedron (="eight faces") is a regular high-symmetry solid with all the faces identical. A triangular prism has a triangular base, a triangular roof, and 3 rectangular sides (walls).
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What is the difference between a prism and a cuboid?
You can have a triangular prism but not a triangular cuboid which is a rectangular shape.
What other shape has the same base as a triangular prism?
A regular tetrahedron. octahedron, dodecahedron.
How many triangular faces does a octahedron have?
An octahedron is a closed 3-d shape with 8 polygonal faces. There are 257 topologically different convex octahedra. An octahedron can have triangles for all eight faces or, as is the case with a hexagonal prism, not a single triangular face.
How many faces does a small triangular prism have?
A triangular prism has 5 faces. The size of the prism makes no difference.
What is the difference in the number of faces in a triangular prism and a rectangular prism?
The differnence is that a triangular prism has 5 faces and and rectangular prism had 4 faces.
What shape has 6 vertices and 9 edges?
a triangular prism has 6 vertices.
What is the difference between a triangular pyramid and a triangular prism?
the difference is a triangular pyramid has a point at the top and a triangular prism doesn't and a triangular pyramid has a square at the bottom and tringular prism doesn't
What is the difference between a triangular prism and a hexagonal prism?
A triangular prism has triangular bases, a heagonal prism has ... you guessed it! ... hexagonal bases.
What is the difference between a prism and a cuboid?
You can have a triangular prism but not a triangular cuboid which is a rectangular shape.
What is the difference between a triangular prism and a square prism?
A Square prism has a square base a triangular has a trianguler base
What is the difference between a triangle and a triangular prism?
a triangle is 2D whereas a triangular prism is 3D.
What is the difference between a rectangular prism and a triangular prism?
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How are a rectangular prism and triangular prism different?
A rectangular prism has 4 sides, and a triangular prism has three. Its like asking the difference between a Square and a Triangle!
What other shape has the same base as a triangular prism?
A regular tetrahedron. octahedron, dodecahedron.
How can you tell the difference between a net for a triangular prism and the net for a triangular pyramid?
Triangular prism: 2 triangles, 3 rectangles Triangular pyramid: 4 triangles.
What is the difference beween a triangular prism and a triangular pyramid?
A triangular prism is a pentahedron, a triangular pyramid is a tetrahedron.
What is the difference between a triangular prism and rectangular pyramid?
A triangular prism has a uniformed cross-section whereas a rectangular pyramid does not.
