SOLUTION: A pentagon (a five-sided figure) can be divided into 3 triangles. If you added up all the angles in the divided pentagon, how many total degrees would you get? Briefly explain how

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Question 262414: A pentagon (a five-sided figure) can be divided into 3 triangles. If you added up all the angles in the divided pentagon, how many total degrees would you get? Briefly explain how you arrived at your answer.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) About Me  (Show Source):
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Each of the triangles would have 180°, so 3 of them would have 3×180°
or 540°.