Maybe its just like that but not all footballs are with hexagons
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They have hexagons and pentagons on it.
A soccer ball is not a tesselation because it is made of hexagons that do not connect and it is a ball. therefore it is not a tesselation
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On the 32-panel soccer ball, there are 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.
A regulation soccer ball is comprised of both hexagons and pentagons.
On a soccer ball there are 12 pentagons and any practical number of hexagons that can make the soccer ball look spherical.
bee hive or soccer ball net
Count them
A soccer ball has 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, not 20 pentagons and 12 hexagons.
On an official soccer ball you will find 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. There are 60 points in which the corners of the hexagons and the hexagons connect, and the hexagons and the pentagons connect. The 20 hexagons are white, while the 12 pentagons are white.
They have a few pentagons on it.
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