Oh, what a happy little question! The number of faces on a prism is always two more than the number of sides on its base. You see, the base of the prism creates one face on the bottom and another face on the top, and each side of the base connects to one face on the side of the prism. Just like painting a beautiful landscape, it's all about seeing how each part comes together to create a lovely whole.
A prism has two identical polygonal bases connected by rectangular or parallelogram faces, so it has 2 sides. A pyramid has a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at a common vertex, so it has a total of n+1 sides, where n is the number of sides of the base polygon.
The number of faces in a prism is one face for each of the sides of its cross-section plus the two end faces. A quadrilateral prism has a quadrilateral as its cross-section. Therefore it has 4 + 2 = 6 faces.
Faces + Vertices = Edges + 2
Sides and faces are the same thing. A hexagonal prism has 8 faces and 12 vertices.
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The greatest number of sides can be any amount of sides.
A prism has two polygonal faces at each end and these may have any number of sides, n. The prism also has n rectangular faces.
A prism has two identical polygonal bases connected by rectangular or parallelogram faces, so it has 2 sides. A pyramid has a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at a common vertex, so it has a total of n+1 sides, where n is the number of sides of the base polygon.
A prism is often named according to its base: one of the pair of congruent and parallel polygonal faces. In that case, if the base is a polygon with n sides, then the prism has 2*n vertices.
a rectangular prism has Six sides
Sides = 9 Faces = 5
The number of faces in a prism is one face for each of the sides of its cross-section plus the two end faces. A quadrilateral prism has a quadrilateral as its cross-section. Therefore it has 4 + 2 = 6 faces.
My answer to that question is eight sides. * * * * * Actually, there is no single answer because a prism is a generic term which is used to describe a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel bases and a number of rectangular faces joining them. If the base is a polygon with n sides (n ≥ 3), then the corresponding prism has n+2 faces. So a prism can have 5 or more faces.
This question is not the clearest. However, an n-sided prism will typically have n+2 faces: the n sides, and the two ends. So a nine-sided prism will have 11 faces.
Faces + Vertices = Edges + 2
A decagonal prism has 12 faces.
All prisms have a face on each end. Additionally, they will have a number of faces corresponding to the number of sides on the polygon that is on an end. For a triangular prism, that's 2 + 3 = 5 faces. For a square prism, that's 2 + 4 = 6 faces. For your pentagon prism, that's 2 + 5 = 7 faces.