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Assignment 8.17
Prisms
Objectives
Name bases and lateral faces of prisms.
Identify rectangular solids and cubes.
Identify heights of prisms.
About Geometry Worksheet Assignment 8.17:
Assignment 8.17 is an introduction to prisms.
Prerequisite Skills: Classify polygons (Assignment 8.3). Name polygons (Assignment 8.1).
Definitions: A prism is a polyhedron in which at least two faces are congruent and parallel polygons and all other faces are parallelograms.
The congruent and parallel faces of a prism are its bases. The other faces are lateral faces.
A prism with its lateral faces rectangles is right. A prism that is not right is oblique.
A prism in which all faces are rectangles is a rectangular solid. A prism in which all faces are squares is a cube.
The height of a prism is the distance between its bases.