SOLUTION: How do you find the number of sides in a polygon if the interior angle is given?
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Question 258984: How do you find the number of sides in a polygon if the interior angle is given?
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you are given the number of degrees of one interior angle, then use this formula
= degrees of single interior angle
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EX: suppose one interior angle is 135 degrees. We use this formula to get
multiply by n to get
distribute to get
solving for n we get
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If you are given the total number of degrees in a polygon, then to find the number of sides, use this formula:
This will give you the number of n sides.
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