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Question 111330: Two similar irregular heptagons are cut out of the same piece of paper, but they cannot completely cover each other. Why?
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Question 112400: Find the perimeter of the polygon, top measures 34 m, sides measure 15 m, and the bottom measures 28 m?
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Question 115890:

what is the sum of the measurements of the interior angles of a 28-gon?

I'm trying to help my son with his homework and help would be great!
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Question 117070: Pls help me with this question: Each interior angle of a regular n-gon is 168. Calculate the value of n.
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Question 117097: i need help with this question: One thousand cubes are arranged to form a large cube. All the surfaces of the large cube are painted. What fraction of the cubes are not painted at all?
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Question 117259: I need help with this question: If the radius of the base of a cylinder is increased by 50% and its height decreased in the ratio 4:9, how will its volume be changed?
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Question 117415: Pls help!!! : A coil of wire has a mass of 1.2 kg. The diameter of the wire is 2mm. 1cm^3 of the wire weighs 6.8g. Find the length of the wire and correct to the nearest metre.
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Question 118002: ok..this is a hard one. It looks like the top of a roof that goes into a point and comes down on both sides, but not even. there is a line separating the small triangle.
Find the area of the figure
inside the long part is 5ft down
and the bottom is 8 ft across
possible answers are
a) 40ft 2 pie
b) 20ft 2 pie
c) 52ft 2 pie
d) 26 ft 2 pie
i wish i could draw this...sigh. Thank you to anyone that can understand help me with this one.
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Question 118244: Pls Help! : Each interior angle of a regular n-gon is 156. Calculate the value of n. ( using the sum of the interior angles of an n-gon)
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Question 118697: 1. If the measure of each of the interior angles of a regular polygon is 100 more than the measure of each of the exterior angles, name the polygon?

2.) Each of the measure of the interior and exterior angles of a regular polygon are in a ration 5:1. Find the measure of an interior and an exterior angle and the name of the polygon.
please help!

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Question 119238: How do I find the sum of the exterior angles of a 20-gon?
And the measure of each exterior angle of a 15-gon?
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Question 119238: How do I find the sum of the exterior angles of a 20-gon?
And the measure of each exterior angle of a 15-gon?
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Question 119079: In an equiangular polygon, the measure of each exterior angle is 25% of the measure of each interior angle. What is the name of the polygon?
-I know that the sum of the exterior angles of a polygon equals 360 degrees, but I have no idea where to go from there.
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Question 119780: hi1
please help me with this.thanks for anyhelp coming this way
The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 2340 degrees. How many sides does the polygon have??
i know its 15 sides buth in need a solution for it .
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Question 120221: Find the perimeter of a square QRST if two of the adjacent vertices are Q(6,7) and R(-3,4). Round your final answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 120216: A cubical container without a top is to be made from plastic. Its outer dimensions are 5cm by 5cm by 5cm and the walls and the bottom are .25 cm thick. Find the volume of plastic used to make the container, to the nearest cubic cm.
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Question 120215: A quadrilateral is constructed in the coordinate place with vertices (-2,-2), (2,-2), (6,4), and (6,1). Find the area of the portion of the quadrilateral which lies in the first quadrant.
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Question 121655: Melissa is walking around the outside of a building that is in the shaape of a regular polygon. She determine that the measure of one extior angle of the building is 60 degress. How many sides does the building have?
6
3
9
12?
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Question 122960: The ratio of the number of sides of two regular polygons is 1:2, and the ratio of the sum of their interior angles is 3:4. Find the number of sides of each polygon.
Could you plese explain how to solve the problem.
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Question 123994: Here is the problem
The large rectangle shown is a gold rectangle. This means that when a square is cut off, the rectangle that remains is similar to the original rectabgle.
The ratio of the length to width ina golden rectangle is called the golden ratio. Write the golden ratio in simplified radical form. Then use a calculator to find an approximation to the newest hundreth.
______________
|.....|........| (Ignore the periods in the rectangle. I had to do
|.....|........| that so it would look like a box.)
|.....|........| X
|.....|........|
|_____|________|
X
^------1-------^ < The measure of that whole bottom side is 1
So far I have concluded that x=1. As of what to do next I am completely on sure. My teacher gave me a hint to use the quadratic formula... but I still dont know what to do with it. Please help! THANK YOU!!!

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Question 124458: We can use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems that involve right triangles.Provide an example of a day-to-day situation that involves right triangles and the use of the theorem.

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Question 124456: What is the difference between an equiangular polygon, an equilateral polygon, and a regular polygon? Provide an example of each.

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Question 125281: What's the distance between a and b
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Question 125810: what is the soultion to the problem:90(20)(95+3)/360-104+the square root of200+7 all over 4to the third power*180over720+(169-59)1/176
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Question 126359: a quadrilateralhas four angle...each angle has a different measurment.. i have to figure out the value of x with the information below
The measurement of angle A is (4x+10)degrees
The measurement of angle B is 108 degrees
The measurement of angle C is 67 Degrees
The measurement of angle D is 3x dergrees

Help please!!!! i dont get it....thanx alot
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Question 126362: I need ur help on this question...i just dont get it
use geometry software to draw a quadrilateral.measure each interior angle and calculate the sum. what happens to the sum as you drag the vertices of the quadrilateral?
can u lik explain this better....HELP PLZ!! Thanx alot
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Question 129480: what is the sum of the 15-gon and 20-gon
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Question 130236: What is the sum of the measures of the interior anles of a convex 13-gon?
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Question 130625: When finding the perimeter of a regular polgon, will you get the same answer if you add each side as when you multiply the length of one side by the total number of sides.
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Question 131758: What is the perimeter of this polygon? 27.3ft,25.8ft,19.1ft,6ft,8.9ft,8.6ft,4.5ft I come up with 2 answears 97.3ft and 100.2ft can you please help
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Question 131824: find the number of sides (N) in a regular convex polygon with the exterioe angles measuring 120*(degrees)?
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Question 131819: The sum of the interior angles of a convex polygon is equal to the sum of the exterior angles. what type of polygon is it?
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Question 132236: if a regular polygon has 18 sides what is it's exterior measurments?
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Question 132400: True or False: The closer the measure of the base and height of a rectangle, the smaller the perimeter.
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Question 132980: What is the sum of the measures of the exterior angles of a 13-gon and a 14-gon?
and thank you soooo much if you can help me!! :)
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Question 133098: If each exterior angle of a polygon has measure 15, then the polygon has ____ sides?
I'm not sure exactly how to solve this problem. Your help would be very much appreciated.
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Question 133425: What regular polygon has an exterior angle measure of 18?
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Question 133511: Which of the following statement is ture?
A.Each interior angle of a regular pentagon has a measurement of 60 degrees
B. Each interior angle of a regular pentagon has a measurement of 90 degress
C. Each interior angle of a regular pentagon has a measurement of 108 degrees
D. Each interior angle of a regular pentagon has a measurement of 120 degrees.
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Question 133613: What is the perimeter of a regular hexagon with sides 5.4 inches long?
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