SOLUTION: What is the measure of an interior angle of a regular octagon? A regular hexagon?

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Question 256501: What is the measure of an interior angle of a regular octagon? A regular hexagon?
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The sum of the interior angles of any -gon is given by:



Therefore the measure of one interior angle of any regular -gon is given by:



Substitute 8 for and do the arithmetic. Then substitute 6 for and do the arithmetic.

John