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The faces of a regular dodecahedron are what type of polygon?

A)
squares


B)
regular hexagons


C)
regular pentagons


D)
equilateral triangles

User Guillefix
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All the faces on a dodecahedron are regular pentagons.
User Guichi
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A dodecahedron must have 12 faces

Of these 12 faces, two must be the top & base.

So there shall be 10 faces on the lateral surface.

Hence there shall be 5 on one half & 5 on the other half.

To have 5 faces on the base of a regular polygon, the base must have 5 sides.

So it must be a regular pentagon.

The faces of a regular dodecahedron are regular pentagons.

Option C) is the right answer.

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The faces of a regular dodecahedron are what type of polygon? A) squares B) regular-example-1
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