How many faces, vertices and edges does a square base pyramid have?

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Shwetank Mauria
Mar 12, 2017

A square base pyramid has #5# faces, #5# vertices and #8# edges.

Explanation:

A square base pyramid has #5# faces, #5# vertices and #8# edges. This can be checked from following figure.

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In fact in any polyhedron, if there are #F# faces, #V# vertices and #E# edges, we always have #F+V=E+2#.

This equation is known as Euler's polyhedron formula.

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