Nicholas drew a figure to find a cross section of an icosahedron, a polyhedron with 20 faces. What is Nicholas's error?

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Nicholas drew a figure to find a cross section of an icosahedron, a polyhedron with 20 faces. What is Nicholas's error?

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Because the plane that intersects
the icosahedron is a rectangle, the
cross section is a rectangle.
Transcribed Image Text:M Because the plane that intersects the icosahedron is a rectangle, the cross section is a rectangle.
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