document.write( "Question 983192: The difference between the exterior angles of two regular polygon having sides equal to n and n+1 is 12. Find the value of n \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "An exterior angle of a n sided polygon is equal to \"360%2Fn+\" and that of \"%28n+%2B+1%29\" sided polygon is \"360%2F%28n+%2B+1%29+\".\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "if the difference between the exterior angles of two regular polygon is \"12\", we have\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"360%2Fn+-+360%2F%28n+%2B+1%29+=12\"...........solve for \"n\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28360%28n+%2B+1%29%29%2F%28n%28n+%2B+1%29%29++-+360n%2F%28n%28n+%2B+1%29%29=12\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28360%28n+%2B+1%29++-+360n%29%2F%28n%28n+%2B+1%29%29=12\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28360n+%2B+360+-+360n%29=12n%28n+%2B+1%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+360+=12n%28n+%2B+1%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+360+%2F12=n%28n+%2B+1%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+30=n%5E2+%2B+n\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+0=n%5E2+%2B+n-30\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+0=n%5E2+-5n%2B+6n-30\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+0=%28n%5E2+-5n%29%2B+%286n-30%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+0=n%28n+-5%29%2B+6%28n-5%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"+0+=+%28n-5%29+%28n%2B6%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "solutions:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "if \"+0+=+%28n-5%29+\"=>\"n=5\"
\n" ); document.write( "if\"+0+=+%28n%2B6%29\"=>\"n=-6\"...=.> since \"n\" cannot be negative number, disregard solution \"n=-6\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "so, your solution is \"highlight%28n=5%29\"\r
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