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geometry junior

Problem

A pyramid has 6 vertices and 6 faces. How many edges does it have?
Solution
A pyramid with faces would have a pentagon on the bottom and five triangles on the sides. There are thus edges on the bottom along the pentagon and an additional edges from the triangles on the sides, for a total of .
Final answer
10\;\text{edges}