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Equilateral Pentagon Hexagon

Square
Triangle

Heptagon Octagon Enneagon

Decagon Hendecagon Dodecagon

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20 sides
Eicosagon

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What is the sum of the interior angles of this enneagon?

Interior Angle

A 9–sided polygon is split into 7 triangles

7 x 180° = 1260°

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What isisthe
What thesum
sumofof
thethe interior
interior angles
angles of enneagon?
of this a polygon
with n sides?

A n - sided polygon can be split into n – 2 triangles

sum = (n - 2)´ 180° = 180(n - 2)

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sum of the interior angles of various polygons

triangle quadrilateral
pentagon
180° 180° x 2 = 360°
180° x 3 = 540°

hexagon heptagon octagon

180° x 4 = 720° 180° x 5 = 900° 180° x 6 = 1080°
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Consider the following polygon

Exterior Angle

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

360°
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Consider the following polygon

Exterior Angle

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

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Consider the following polygon

What do the exterior angles of a polygon add up to?

360°
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The central angle of a regular polygon
How do we find the central
angle of a regular polygon
Centralwith n sides?
Angle
360°
Central angle =
n

Central Angle

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The central angle of a regular polygon
How do we find the central
angle of a regular polygon
with n sides?

Central angle of a pentagon =

360°
= 72°
5

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The central angle of a regular polygon
How do we find the central
angle of a regular polygon
with n sides?

Central angle of an octagon =

360°
= 45°
8

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The exterior angle of a regular pentagon

360°
exterior angle = = 72°
5

The exterior angles of any polygon add up to 360°

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The exterior angle of a regular octagon

360°
exterior angle = = 45°
8

The exterior angles of any polygon add up to 360°

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 The interior angle of a regular polygon

180(n – 2)
Interior angle =
n

A n - sided polygon can be split into n – 2 triangles

sum = (n - 2)´ 180° = 180(n - 2)

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the interior angles of various regular polygons

equilateral square pentagon

triangle 180° x 2 = 360° 180° x 3 = 540°
180° ÷ 3 = 60° 360° ÷ 4 = 90° 540° ÷ 5 = 72°

hexagon heptagon octagon

180° x 4 = 720° 180° x 5 = 900° 180° x 6 = 1080°
720° ÷ 6 = 120° 900° ÷ 7 ≈ 128.6° 1080° ÷ 8 = 135°
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For every regular polygon
360°
exterior angle =
n

360°
central angle =
n

180(n – 2)
interior angle =
n

These formulae are very easy to derive

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