SOLUTION: The measure of an interior angle of a regular polygon is 160. What is the number of sides in the polygon?

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Question 1020578: The measure of an interior angle of a regular polygon is 160.
What is the number of sides in the polygon?

Answer by Cromlix(4381)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hi there,
The interior angle is 160 degs
so the exterior angle is 180 - 160 = 20 degs
Exterior angles add up to 360
So divide 360/20 = 18 exterior angles
and there are 18 sides.
Hope this helps
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