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Maths, Addmaths and Statistics: Post your doubts here!

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What you're thinking is a pyramid.Any shape with a definite base area and a length is a prism.If it was supposed to be a pyramid we would be given the formula for pyramid,but since its a prism,we arent,its like a cylinder which is also a prism.
 
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this is the formula of a puramid....in prisim we do not divide by three....u r just confusing urself...
What you're thinking is a pyramid.Any shape with a definite base area and a length is a prism.If it was supposed to be a pyramid we would be given the formula for pyramid,but since its a prism,we arent,its like a cylinder which is also a prism.
I hope you studied Very hard.

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It's not a prism. It's a Sector Area into Height. and the side is curved.
In geometry, a prism is a polyhedron with an n-sided polygonal base, a translated copy (not in the same plane as the first), and n other faces (necessarily all parallelograms) joining corresponding sides of the two bases. All cross-sections parallel to the base faces are the same. Prisms are named for their base, so a prism with a pentagonal base is called a pentagonal prism. The prisms are a subclass of the prismatoids.

Aka it's a polygon:
In geometry a polygon /ˈpɒlɪɡɒn/ is traditionally a plane figure that is bounded by a finite chain of straight line segments closing in a loop to form a closed chain or circuit.
 
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