The document presents a lesson quiz focused on inductive reasoning, including questions about the measures of angles in triangles and conjectures related to polygons. It asks students to determine the measure of a vertex angle in a pattern and to identify counterexamples to specific geometric statements. Additionally, it provides a table of data regarding the sum of interior angles for various polygons and prompts students to make conjectures based on that data.
The document presents a lesson quiz focused on inductive reasoning, including questions about the measures of angles in triangles and conjectures related to polygons. It asks students to determine the measure of a vertex angle in a pattern and to identify counterexamples to specific geometric statements. Additionally, it provides a table of data regarding the sum of interior angles for various polygons and prompts students to make conjectures based on that data.
2° 1. What is the measure of the vertex 4° 6° angle in the next triangle in 8° the pattern? 89° 89° 88° 88° 87° 87° 86° 86°
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2. What conjecture can you make about the measure of the
base angles in the nth triangle in the pattern? 180(n − 1) 𝖠 180 − 2n 𝖢 ______ 2 180 − 2n 180 − n 𝖡 _______ 2 𝖣 ____________ 2
3. Which shape is a counterexample to the following
statement? All quadrilaterals with four congruent sides are squares. 𝖠 rectangle 𝖢 parallelogram 𝖡 trapezoid 𝖣 rhombus Use the table for Items 4 and 5. 4. Based on the data in the table, what is the Number of Sum of All sum of the interior angles of an 8-sided Sides Interior Angles
polygon? 3 180° 1080 ° 4 360° 5. Select all of the conjectures you could make 5 540° based on the table. 6 720° ◻ A. The sum of the interior angles of a trapezoid equals 360°. ◻ B. The sum of all the interior angles of a regular hexagon is 540°. ◻ C. The sum of the interior angles of a rhombus is equal to the sum of the interior angles of a square. ◻ D. The sum of the interior angles of polygon increases by 180° with each additional side. ◻ E. Doubling the number of sides of a polygon doubles the sum of the interior angles.