Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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4. Three-Dimensional Figures
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Exercise 1 Page 306

A polyhedron is a space figure — a three-dimensional figure — whose surfaces are polygons. Each polygon is a face of the polyhedron. An edge is a segment that is formed by the intersection of two faces and a vertex is a point where three or more edges intersect.

Faces: 5
Edges: 9
Vertices: 6

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A polyhedron is a space figure — a three-dimensional figure — whose surfaces are polygons. Each polygon is a face of the polyhedron.

Our polyhedron has 5 faces. These are the quadrilaterals SXRY, TYRW, and STWX, and the triangles STY and XWR. Next, recall that an edge is a segment that is formed by the intersection of two faces.

We can see that our polyhedron has 9 edges: ST, TY, YS, RX, XW, WR, XS, TW, and YR. Finally, recall that a vertex is a point where three or more edges intersect.

Our polyhedron has 6 vertices, S, T, Y, R, X, and W. Let's summarize our results!

Faces (5) Edges (9) Vertices (6)
Quadrilaterals: SXRY, TYRW, and STWX
Triangles: STY and XWR
ST, TY, YS, RX, XW, WR, XS, TW, and YR S, T, Y, R, X, and W