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Ginny wants to decorate the gift she got for her friend by putting a rose on each vertex of the package. The package is in the shape of a rectangular pyramid. How many roses does she need?

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A rectangular pyramid is what they built in Egypt thousands of years ago. The base is a rectangle, and it has one top. So the sides are triangles. The base has 4 corners and then there's the top. That makes a total of 5 points (or vertices).
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