A triangular prism has how many edges?
A triangular prism is a polyhedron that has five faces, or flat surfaces. Every shape has properties or characteristics that help you differentiate it from others. For example, a square has four sides and four corners, while a 3-D cube has six faces, eight vertices, or corners, and 12 edges, the lines where the faces meet.
A triangular prism is a bit more complex. It has:
Five faces: three rectangles and two triangles
Six vertices, or corners
Nine edges
If you look up at your roof, you might be looking at a triangular prism. If you ever ate a chocolate bar called a Toblerone, you have eaten a triangular prism. Lastly, if you ever have been camping in a tent then you have slept in a triangular prism.
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Anne Patrick
Stephen Harmon, It asked about a triangular prism, a 3D shape, not a triangle or a pyramid.
William Laughlin
Patricia Viater,
Nine is the correct answer.
There is a triangle at both ends of a triangular shaft. Each of the two end triangles has 3 edges totaling 6, plus the three edges of the shaft itself connecting the points of the two triangles.
There are 9 edges.
Marina da Conceicao
Six, otherwise it is not a simple triangular prism and has another name.
Graham Johnson
a triangular prism is a three-sided prism; it is a polyhedron made of a triangular base, a translated copy, and 3 faces joining corresponding sides. What you have described is a Uniform Triangular Prism, both distinctly different, so by not using the word Uniform in the question the answer is actually 6
Kathleen Bishop
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It looks like some people need to go back to school especially for mathematics.
Kimberly Kennedy
Just do the math.