SOLUTION: a student who was given a pentagon with four angle measures was asked to find the fifth angle the student said he would use [(n-2)times 180]/n. will his method work?

Question 982289: a student who was given a pentagon with four angle measures was asked to find the fifth angle the student said he would use [(n-2)times 180]/n. will his method work?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39632) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
That method might or might not work, depending on the pentagon. If not a regular pentagon, it can still be split into separate triangles.

Pick one vertex. Connect this with segments to the two non-adascent vertices. This will form THREE triangles.
180 degrees per triangle
3 triangles

The division by n WILL NOT WORK as a way to find the degrees per angle UNLESS this is a regular polygon. The above calculation is for 540 TOTAL degrees for the interior angles of the pentagon.
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