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A plane intersects a prism to form a cross section that is a polygon with five sides. The minimum number of sides that the polygon at the base of the prism must have is ___.

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Answer:

  3

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A plane can cut a triangular prism so the cross section has 5 sides. No prism base can have fewer sides than 3, so ...

the minimum number of sides that the prism base must have is 3.

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Answer:

3

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A plane intersects a prism to form a cross section that is a polygon with five sides. The minimum number of sides that the polygon at the base of the prism must have is  3.