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These five convex polyhedra have identical regular polygon faces and the same number of faces at every vertex.

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Platonic Solids: Three-dimensional shapes built from identical regular polygon faces. Source: Platonic solid

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  3. 21For a right triangle, this theorem states that a² + b² = c², with c the hypotenuse.RECALL
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