SOLUTION: Where on a triangular prism is the width?

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Question 1016466: Where on a triangular prism is the width?
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Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Where on a triangular prism is the width?
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Wherever someone says it is.

Answer by fractalier(6550)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Really depends on how you look at it.
If you are looking at finding the volume of it, for example, then the volume is found by multiplying the area of the triangle times the length...but that length can be described as the width...

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