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Question 135202: One Polygon has 3 more sides than another. How many degrees are in the sum of the interior angle measures of the first polygon??Thank U: One Polygon has 3 more sides than another. How many degrees are in the sum of the interior angle measures of the first polygon??Thank U
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Insufficient information. Are you talking about a 10 sided polygon and a 7 sided polygon, or a 100 sided polygon and a 103 sided polygon? Is the "first" polygon the one with more sides? Are they regular polygons?

In general, the sum of the interior angles of a regular n-gon is given by:

(n-2)*180 degrees

The ratio of the sum of the angle measures in two polygons, one an n-gon and the other an (n-3)-gon, would be:

(((n-3)-2)*180)/((n-2)*180)=(n-5)/(n-2)

I'm not sure if any of this helps.