SOLUTION: How many diagonls can be drawn from each vertex of a decagon?
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Question 4297: How many diagonls can be drawn from each vertex of a decagon?
Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This question can be answered either by "discovery" or by "construction."
For discovery method, consider a rectangle, which has four sides and one diagonal from a given vertex.
Next consider a pentagon, which has five sides and (picture it!) two diagonals from a given vertex.
Consider a hexagon, which has 6 sides, and each additional side adds an additional diagonal from each given vertex, which would be 3 diagonals.
Did you notice the pattern? The number of diagonals from a given vertex is 3 less than the number of vertices. The question at hand is for a decagon, which is a 10 sided figure, so there would be 10-3 or 7 diagonals from a given vertex.
Finally, you could always draw a 10 sided figure, draw all the diagonals from a given vertex, and count them for yourself!!
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