Update your skills. See page 19.

10-7 Polygons
A polygon is a closed plane figure made up of line segments that
intersect only at their endpoints and in such a way that no two segments
are on the same line. You can classify a polygon by its number of sides.
Polygon Number of Sides Polygons
triangle 3 When all of the sides of a
quadrilateral 4 polygon are congruent and all
pentagon 5 of the angles are congruent, the
hexagon 6 polygon is a regular polygon.
heptagon 7 regular regular
octagon 8 triangle quadrilateral
nonagon 9
decagon 10
dodecagon 12

In general, if a polygon has n sides, you call it an n -gon.

A polygon of 16 sides is a 16-gon.
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A diagonal of a polygon is a line segment
that connects two vertices and is not a side. A D
AwCw, Aww
D, wBw
D, BwEw, CwEw are diagonals of pentagon ABCDE.
Every pentagon, whether it is regular or B C
not regular, has five diagonals.
You can draw some of the diagonals of a polygon to help
you decide if the polygon is convex or concave. K L
convex polygon — cdiagonals do not have
any points outside the J M
polygon; JKLMNO is
a convex hexagon. N
O
concave polygon — one or more diagonals P R
have points outside
the polygon; PRSTUV V S
is a concave hexagon.
w is outside
Diagonal wPU
the hexagon. U T

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Tell whether the polygon is regular ornot regular. Then tell
whether it is convexor concave . Explain your answers.
1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

Draw each polygon and find its number of sides or vertices

to complete the table.
Name Number of Sides Number of Vertices
9. heptagon 7 ?
10. nonagon ? 9
11. decagon 10 ?
12. dodecagon 12 ?

Find the number of diagonals in each polygon.

13. quadrilateral 14. hexagon 15. heptagon 16. octagon
17. In your answers for exercises 13–16, does it matter
if the polygons are convex or concave? Explain.

Draw the polygon described. Then draw and name its diagonals.
18. hexagon JKLMNO 19. a quadrilateral WXYZ
with no right angles
20. concave pentagon ABCDE 21. regular triangle NRT

Solve each equation.

22. c 1 98 5 180 23. 4 1d5 2 24. a 1 110 5 180
9 3
25. b 1 2.75 5 3.60 26. 2310 1 a 5 2360 27. 165 1 c 5 180

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