Question 1194586
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Three interior angles of a pentagon are each 3y and the remaining each twice the first three. 
Find the value of y. Please help me solve this
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The sum of interior angles of any n-gon is  (n-2)*180°.


For a pentagon, it is  (5-2)*180° = 3*180° = 540°.


The three angles are 3y each;  the remaining two angles are 2*(3y) = 6y each.


An equation to find y is

    3y + 3y + 3y + 6y + 6y = 540°,

or

    21y = 540  degrees,


which implies

    y = 540/21 = 180/7.


<U>ANSWER</U>.  The value of y is  180/7 degrees.
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Solved.



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