Question

What is the shape of a playing dice?

Answer 1

Hint: To solve this question first we will describe the dice. Then we learn that a dice is a three dimensional object so we match the properties of a dice with three dimensional shapes to get the correct answer.

Complete step by step answer:
We have to find the shape of a playing dice.
We know that playing dice is a three dimensional object. A dice generally has a shape of a cube. A cube is a three dimensional shape which has square shaped faces of the same size. A cube has 6 equal faces. It has 8 vertices, 12 diagonals and 12 edges. The angles of the cube are right angles. All the faces, diagonals and edges are equal in the cube.
Playing dice comes in a shape of a cube with dots on the faces. Generally a playing dice has 1 to 6 dots on each face. Each dot represents a number. Dice have 12 equal sides.
For example, a playing dice can be pictured as below,

Note: Students may confuse between cube and cuboid. As both are three dimensional shapes but there are differences between the two. A cuboid is a three dimensional shape but it has rectangular faces. All the sides of a cuboid are not equal. It also has 8 vertices, 12 diagonals and 12 edges but they are not equal. Some examples of cuboids are duster, bricks.