SOLUTION: If a figure has a rotation symmetry, then can the least positive magnitude of a rotation that maps the figure onto itself be 27 degrees? explain why or why not

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Question 175087This question is from textbook Geometry
: If a figure has a rotation symmetry, then can the least positive magnitude of a rotation that maps the figure onto itself be 27 degrees? explain why or why not This question is from textbook Geometry

Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
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No because 27 does not divide 360 evenly. If I advanced a point by
27 degrees each time, it would not come back to where it started