Question 416938: A pizza parlor divides a pizza into 8 eual slices. Each slice of pizza looks exactly the same. The pizza has rotational symmetry. What is the angle of rotation for the pizza?
Answer by htmentor(1343)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Since a circle is 360 degrees, and there are 8 slices, each slice is 360/8 = 45 degrees.
For rotational symmetry, rotating the pizza by the proper angle would allow it to remain unchanged, i.e. look exactly the same. In this case, the pizza will look exactly the same under any rotation which is a multiple of 45 degrees.
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