SOLUTION: Each interior angle of a regular polygon is thrice each exterior angle. Find the number of side of the polygon.

Algebra.Com
Question 898741: Each interior angle of a regular polygon is thrice each exterior angle.
Find the number of side of the polygon.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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


RELATED QUESTIONS

Each interior angle of a regular polygon is 20 more than 3 times the measure of each... (answered by stanbon)
If each exterior angle of a regular polygon is 30 degrees , find an interior angle and... (answered by Alan3354)
Each exterior angle of a regular polygon is (22.5) °. Find the number of side of the... (answered by ikleyn)
each interior angle of a regular polygon is double of its exterior angle.Find the number... (answered by Alan3354)
in a regular polygon each interior angle isthrice of exterior angle .the number of side... (answered by ikleyn)
The interior angle of a regular polygon is thrice the exterior angle .how many sides has... (answered by htmentor)
The ratio of an exterior angle and interior angle of a regular polygon is 2:7. Find each... (answered by Alan3354)
Each exterior angle is 100º less than its interior angle of a regular polygon. Find the... (answered by KMST,MathTherapy)
The ratio of each interior angles to each exterior angle of a regular polygon is 4:1.... (answered by Theo)