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Describe a pentagonal prism.

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Explanation:

A pentagonal prism is a prism having two pentagonal bases and five rectangular sides. It is a heptahedron.

The regular right pentagonal prism is uniform polyhedron . Its dual polyhedron is the pentagonal dipyramid.

The surface area and volume for the right regular pentagonal prism of unit edge length are

S = 5+1/2sqrt(5(5+2sqrt(5)))

(1)

V = 1/4sqrt(5(5+2sqrt(5))).

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