SOLUTION: Please help me with this problem! Find the number of the sides of a regular polygon if each exterior angle measure is 18?? I'm stumped.

Question 168283: Please help me with this problem! Find the number of the sides of a regular polygon if each exterior angle measure is 18?? I'm stumped.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Please help me with this problem! Find the number of the sides of a regular polygon if each exterior angle measure is 18?? I'm stumped.
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The sum of the INTERIOR angle of a polygon with n sides is 180*(n-2). Each angle is (180*(n-2))/n.
The exterior angles are 180-interior angle, so this is a polygon with interior angles of 162 degrees.
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So, 180*(n-2)/n = 162
180*(n-2) = 162n
180n-360 = 162n
18n = 360
n = 20
I don't remember the name of that one, maybe duodecagon.
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