"Question 5 Is a square prism same as a cube? Explain.
Class 8 Visualising Solid Shapes Page 166"
Answers
• Polyhedron: A three-dimensional figure whose faces are all polygons.
Regular polyhedrons: A polyhedron is said to be regular if its faces are made up of regular polygons and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.
• Prism: A polyhedron whose bottom and top faces (known as bases) are congruent polygons & faces known as lateral faces are parallelograms.
When the side faces are rectangles, the shape is known as right prism.
• Pyramid: A polyhedron whose base is a polygon and lateral faces are triangles
with a common vertex.
A prism or a pyramid is named after its base. Thus a hexagonal prism has a hexagon as its base; and a triangular pyramid has a triangle as its base
Face: A flat surface of a three dimensional figure.
Edge: Line segment where two faces of solid meet.
• Vertex: A point where three of more edges meet.
• Base: The face that is used to name a polyhedron.
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Solution:
No square prism is not same as a cube because a square prism has 3 square faces and 2 triangular(equilateral) faces unlike cube.
In cube all the side are of equal length and the angles are equal.
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