Angles in Polygons

Use the angle facts you know to solve these questions. Remember to explain your
answers where necessary and show working.

1. This diagram is composed of 2 quarter circles, 4 equilateral

triangles and a rhombus.

Find the angle x.

2. ABCDEFGHI is a regular nine-sided polygon (called a 'nonagon').

What is the size of the angle FAE?

3. Two polygons fit together so that the exterior (orange) angle at each end of their shared side
is 81°.

If both shapes now have to be regular polygons, but do not need to be the same, and each
polygon can have any number of sides, could the orange angle still be 81°, and if that is
possible how many sides would each polygon have?
Find solutions for when the orange angle is 27° and when it is 54°.

Can you make a conjecture about the connection between the size of the orange angle and
the number of sides on each polygon.
If you can, are you able to justify your conjecture?
 4. Show that among the interior angles of a convex polygon there cannot be more than three
acute angles.

Show that if a convex polygon has more than six sides, then at least one of the sides has an
obtuse angle at both ends.

5. Is it true that any convex hexagon will tessellate if

• it has a pair of opposite sides that are equal, and

• three adjacent angles that add up to 360 degrees?

You may assume that the adjacent angles that

add up to 360 degrees are "in between" the
equal sides, as shown in the diagram.

A + B + C = 360°

x=y

Can you show that it will always be true?

Can you find a counter example?

6. The diagram shows a regular dodecagon (a polygon with twelve equal sides and equal angles).

What is the size of the marked angle?