Can you guys please help me with this?

Question

On this paper it has a net of a 3D shape. I figured out that it's a triangular prism, and it says to draw the shape that the net makes. The thing is.... I HAVE NO FLIPPIN IDEA HOW TO DRAW A FLIPPIN TRIANGULAR FLIPPIN PRISM!!!!

sorry, not prism. i actually meant PYRAMID.not prism

Answer 1

Look at the picture at this website - you can draw this!

http://www.ask-geometry.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Descr.html

Answer 2

Draw one triangular face, to look like it was viewed from an angle. Draw the other triangular face the same way, making sure they are pointing the same way. Now, connect the two triangles by their vertices.

Edit: Whoopsie, ignore that. I meant to say: draw one triangular face - the base - and an angle, and then make a dot for the vertex of the pyramid; then connect the vertex to each of the vertices of the triangular base.

Answer 3

First draw the base. If it's a tetrahedron then draw this base as a flattened triangle. If it is a pyramid with a square bottom then draw a parallelogram with the two lines on the right and left short, the ones on the top and bottom longer. Now draw a point above your parallelogram. From each corner of your parallelogram draw a straight line up to that point.

Answer 4

first off, find out what a triangular prism looks like.

then draw something so that when you fold it, it looks like a triangular prism when constructed

this is not hard.

Answer 5

The best advice I could give is to look at pictures of triangular pyramids and immitate them; with practice it will become easy.

Answer 6

All of the above are good answers, but why do you ask 'us guys'? There are a lot of very good female mathematicians in the world, and some of them are here, on Y! Q&A. as well. Don't insult them ☺


Doug

Answer 7

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularPyramid.html