Solids
Making Solids Using Nets
A net can be cut out, folded and glued to make a hollow shape.
In this unit, you will be dealing with 3-dimensional shapes such as
Worked Examples
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What solid is made when the net shown is folded and glued?
It is important to add tabs to the net so that
it can be glued. You could put tabs on every
edge, but this would mean gluing tabs to tabs.
The diagram opposite shows one possible
position of the tabs.
Before gluing, crease all the folds.
The final solid is a triangular prism.
Exercises
