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What is the Platonic Solid and How many are there and What are their names?
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1 - What is a platonic solid?
A platonic solid is one with all faces congruent polygons, meaning that they all have the same number of sides, vertices and angle size.
2 - How many are there?
There are only and exactly five.
3 - What are their names?
Tetrahedron
Cube (but when talking about Platonic solids, it is commonly referred to as a "hexahedron").
Octahedron
Dodecahedron
Icosahedron
Note: These individual platonic solids can be identified by their unique Schlafli Symbol. This is demonstrated through the following:
{p,q}
p = Number of vertices at each face
q = Number of faces at each vertex
So for a dodecahedron, the Shlafli Symbol would be {5,3}, because a pentagon has five {5, or p} vertices, and at any individual vertex three {3, or q} faces meet.
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Defined Platonic Solid how many are there What are their names?
Plato discover them
Is a cylinder a platonic solid?
No. All the faces of a Platonic solid are identical regular polygons.
Which platonic solids are prisms?
A cube is the only platonic solid which is a prism.
Where does the name platonic solid come from?
The Name Platonic solid Comes from Plato the second main reseacher of the five solids. Pythagoras was the one discovered the platonic solids
A cube is not a Platonic solid?
B.False
Defined Platonic Solid how many are there What are their names?
Plato discover them
Which figure has faces that are congruent to its bases?
A Platonic solid.A Platonic solid.A Platonic solid.A Platonic solid.
What are the names of the 5 platonic solid?
the cube, octahedron, tetrahedron. icosahedron, and the dodecahedron
Is a cylinder a platonic solid?
No. All the faces of a Platonic solid are identical regular polygons.
What is the difference between a platonic solid and a polyhedron?
WHat is the difference between polyheron and platonic solid
Is a trapezoid a platonic solid?
A trapezoid is not a platonic solid. There are only five platonic solids. They are the tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Is a cone a Platonic solid?
No, a cone is not a Platonic solid. The Platonic solids are the five regular polyhedra: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Which platonic solids are prisms?
A cube is the only platonic solid which is a prism.
Where does the name platonic solid come from?
The Name Platonic solid Comes from Plato the second main reseacher of the five solids. Pythagoras was the one discovered the platonic solids
What is everyday platonic solid?
I do not know
A cube is a Platonic solid?
True...
A cube is not a Platonic solid?
B.False
