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The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler and the French mathematician Rene Descartes both discovered a pattern in the numbers of​ edges, vertices, and faces of polyhedrons. Solve problems 8dash10.
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Part 1
8. Complete the table. Describe a pattern in the table.
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Completed table:

- Triangular pyramid (tetrahedron): F = 4, V = 4, F + V = 8, E = 6
- Rectangular pyramid (square pyramid): F = 5, V = 5, F + V = 10, E = 8
- Triangular prism: F = 5, V = 6, F + V = 11, E = 9
- Rectangular prism (box/cuboid): F = 6, V = 8, F + V = 14, E = 12

Pattern: For each polyhedron F + V = E + 2. Equivalently, V − E + F = 2 (Euler’s formula for convex polyhedra).