PSAT Math › How to find the surface area of a polyhedron
A regular octahedron has eight congruent faces, each of which is an equilateral triangle.
A given octahedron has edges of length five inches. Give the total surface area of the octahedron.
A regular icosahedron has twenty congruent faces, each of which is an equilateral triangle.
The total surface area of a given regular icosahedron is 400 square centimeters. To the nearest tenth of a centimeter, what is the length of each edge?