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A cone is a solid with one circular base and one vertex.

Cone

A sphere is the set of all points in space that are equidistant from a given point
called the center.

Sphere

Question

How many more vertices than a rectangular pyramid does a rectangular prism have?

A 0

B 2

C 3

D 4

Answer

The correct answer is C. A rectangular prism has eight vertices and a rectangular pyramid has five.

Review

• A polyhedron is a three-dimensional solid where each face is a polygon. Some
examples are:
• prisms
• cubes
• pyramids
• Other three-dimensional figures (not formed by polygons) include:
• cylinders
• cones
• spheres