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Sum of The Angles of A Polygon: Regular Polygon Has All Its Sides The Same Length and All Its Angles The Same Size

The document discusses polygons and formulas for calculating the sum of interior and exterior angles of polygons. It defines a polygon as a plane shape bounded by straight lines, and a regular polygon as having all sides the same length and all angles the same size. It provides formulas for calculating the sum of interior angles of polygons with n sides as (n-2)×180 degrees and the exterior angle of a regular polygon with n sides as 180/n degrees.

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Sum of The Angles of A Polygon: Regular Polygon Has All Its Sides The Same Length and All Its Angles The Same Size

The document discusses polygons and formulas for calculating the sum of interior and exterior angles of polygons. It defines a polygon as a plane shape bounded by straight lines, and a regular polygon as having all sides the same length and all angles the same size. It provides formulas for calculating the sum of interior angles of polygons with n sides as (n-2)×180 degrees and the exterior angle of a regular polygon with n sides as 180/n degrees.

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Sum of the Angles of A Polygon

A polygon is a plane shape bounded by straight lines e.g. triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon. A
regular polygon has all its sides the same length and all its angles the same size.

If you pick any point inside a polygon then you can draw
lines from all the corners of the figure to make triangles.
In calculating the sum of the interior angles of a polygon
you will multiply the number of triangles by 180

An interior angle is one inside a polygon.

Name of Number Sum of interior angles of the


polygon of sides polygon
Triangle 3 1 x 180 = 180

Quadrilateral 4 2 x 180 = 360

Pentagon 5

Hexagon 6

Heptagon 7

Octagon 8

Nonagon 9

Decagon 10

Write a formula for sum of the interior angles of a polygon with n sides

1
2: Sum of the exterior angles of a polygon

Exterior angle.
Notice that the interior
angle + exterior angle
= 180

Sum of exterior
Name of Number Exterior angle if the
angles of the
polygon of sides polygon is regular
polygon
Triangle 3

Quadrilateral 4

Pentagon 5

Hexagon 6

Heptagon 7

Octagon 8

Nonagon 9

Decagon 10

What do
you
notice? How did you
calculate
this?

Write a formula for exterior angle of a regular polygon with n sides

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