Imposter in a Square
Geometry
Level
3
Which of the images is
NOT
a possible view of one of the Platonic solids.
Platonic solids are regular solids - tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
C
D
B
A
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1 solution
A is a side view of a cube.
B is an edge-on view of a tetrahedron.
C is the answer. It is similar to an edge-on view of a cube, but that would not be a square. It would be a rectangle with sides a and 2 a .
D is a view of an octahedron, with a vertex the closest part to the viewer.