SOLUTION: how many diagonals can be drawn from one vertex of a 12-sided polygon?

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Question 5801: how many diagonals can be drawn from one vertex of a 12-sided polygon?
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) About Me  (Show Source):
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well, you cannot draw a line to the same vertex, so that leaves 11.

And you cannot draw a diagonal to the vertex on either side of your starting vertex (as these are the perimeter of the polygon)...so that now leaves 9.

9 is your answer.

jon.