why does the prisms have a dashed and a solid line? Why isn't everything solid, or everything dashed? Do they represent different things?

The prisms as indicated in the image attached to the task content have some of their lines solid and some dashed because; the prism is a 3-dimensional figure and all sides must be represented accordingly.
According to the task content, it follows that the prism as indicated in the image attached to the task content is a 3-dimensional figure.
Also, the solid lines represents the sides visible to the observer, while the dashed lines represents the side areas which are invisible to the observer.
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