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How many Vertices, Faces, and Edges does a Cuboid have

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All these geometric terms such as faces, vertices, edges, etc. come up a lot during primary geometry lessons, especially during learning about the geometric properties of 3-dimensional shapes. The term “faces” refers to the flat surface of a solid 3-dimensional shape. As an answer to this question, a cuboid has six faces. When one thinks about second and third-dimensional shapes, one needs to understand that a two-dimensional shape in fact represents the face of a three-dimensional feature. 

It is important to note that human reality is three-dimensional in nature, so it is nearly impossible to handle two-dimensional shapes as the human world is surrounded by three-dimensional constructs. Two-dimensional shapes can only exist in drawings or in images, and every object that exists in the physical world is three-dimensional in nature. The feature ‘faces’ includes both smooth and curved surfaces. For example, if one looks at the cube from the front, three faces of the cube are visible to them, and the remaining three faces are hidden. A cuboid is a three-dimensional object which contains six rectangular faces, eight vertices and 12 edges. 

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