A regular polygon has diagonals. Find the measure of an interior angle of the polygon (in degrees).
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Since every two vertices of n -sided polygon form a line. The total number of lines formed by n vertices is ( 2 n ) , subtract away the n sides, we get the number of diagonals. Therefore we have:
( 2 n ) − n 2 n ( n − 1 ) − n n 2 − 3 n − 5 5 4 8 ( n − 7 6 ) ( n + 7 3 ) ⟹ n = 2 7 7 4 = 2 7 7 4 = 0 = 0 = 7 6 Since n > 0
An n -sided regular polygon is formed by n congruent isosceles triangles with a common vertex which is the center of the regular polygon. Each the sum of three interior angles of each triangle is 1 8 0 ∘ . Therefore the sum for n triangles is 1 8 0 ∘ n , subtract away 3 5 0 ∘ at the center, we get the measure of the n interior angles of the regular polygon. Let the measure of interior angle be θ ∘ . Then we have:
θ = n 1 8 0 n − 3 6 0 = 7 6 7 4 ⋅ 1 8 0 = 1 9 3 3 3 0 ≈ 1 7 5 ∘