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If you only used hexagons, you wouldn't be able to make them into a ball. Sticking only hexagons together would give you a flat piece of fabric.
To get a ball shape, you use 12 pentagons, and 20 hexagons, with the same length sides. That combination is what allows you to make something nearly perfectly round out of bits that are actually flat.
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∙ 13y agothey allow for better passage through the air after kicked, as well as providing an equilibrium for the ball when in motion
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Why do soccer ball have polygons?
They have hexagons and pentagons on it.
Why are the shapes on a soccer ball either pentagons or hexagons?
They have a few pentagons on it.
How many of the 32 panels on a football or soccer ball as some call it are pentagons and how many are hexagons?
On the 32-panel soccer ball, there are 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.
How many pentagons are on a soccer ball?
On a soccer ball there are 12 pentagons and any practical number of hexagons that can make the soccer ball look spherical.
How many heptagons are on a soccer ball?
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.
Why does a soccer ball have 20 pentagons and 12 hexagons?
A soccer ball has 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, not 20 pentagons and 12 hexagons.
How do you determine the number hexagons and pentagons on soccer ball?
Count them
What is the number of pentagons and hexagons on an official soccer ball?
Soccer balls have different patterns, but if you have both regular pentagons and regular hexagons it must have 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.
What are the shape of polygons on a regulation soccer ball?
A regulation soccer ball is comprised of both hexagons and pentagons.
What is the numbers hexagons and pentagons on a official soccer ball?
2 \ 5
Why is a soccer ball not a regular polyhedron?
anything goes * * * * * Its faces are a mixture of pentagons and hexagons.
What is the number of hexagons on official soccer ball?
ofcourse 47!!! beginers math umm.... no.... there are hexagons and pentagons! count again!
