Wednesday, October 15, 2014

What is the measure of one angle of a regular polygon with 18 sides?

The sum of the angles of a polygon is given by the
formula:


(n-2)(180)


where n is
the number of sides, which in this case is 18.


So we will
replace n with 18 and evaluate.


(18-2)(180) = (16)(180) =
2880


But this is all the angles, and we just want to know
one angle.


So we must divide by the number of angles,
18.


2880/18 = 160
degrees


The answer is 160
degrees.

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