Each interior angle of a regular polygon is thrice each exterior angle.
Find the number of side of the polygon.
An interior angle and an exterior angle at a vertex of a polygon
are supplementary.
Let the exterior angle be X.
Then the interior angle is 3X.
Since they are supplementary,
X + 3X = 180°
4X = 180°
X = 45°
So each exterior angle is 45°, and each interior angle is 3×45°=135°.
Let the number of sides be N.
The sum of the exterior angles of a polygon is 360°
Since the polygon is regular, each interior angle is
So
Multiply both sides by N
Divide both sides by 45°
It's an 8-sided regular polygon, a regular octagon.
In the regular octagon below, the 135° angle is an INTERIOR angle,
and the 45° angle is an exterior angle.
Edwin