Volume
The volume of a prism is the product of the area of the base and the distance between the two base faces, or the height (in the case of a non-right prism, note that this means the perpendicular distance).
The volume is therefore:
where B is the base area and h is the height. The volume of a prism whose base is a regular n-sided polygon with side length s is therefore:
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