Polygon and it's sides

Geometry Level 1

A polygon has n n sides. Two of its exterior angles are 72 degrees and 35 degrees, while the remaining exterior angles are each equal to 23 degrees.

Find the value of n n .


The answer is 13.

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4 solutions

Rishabh Jain
Mar 1, 2014

The sum of exterior angles is 360° 360 - (72+35) = 253° 253/23 = 11 angles of 23° 11 + 2 = 13 sides n = 13

The sum of exterior angle of a polygon is 36 0 360^\circ . Let x x be the number of exterior angle that measures 2 3 23^\circ , then

72 + 35 + 23 x = 360 72+35+23x=360

23 x = 253 23x=253

x = 11 x=11

Therefore, the number of sides is 11 + 2 = 11+2= 13 \boxed{13} .

Prince Loomba
Jun 25, 2016

Sum of exterior angles is 36 0 360^{\circ} . Let there be n sides. So n 2 n-2 angles are 2 3 23^{\circ} . Thus 360 = 23 ( n 2 ) + 72 + 35 360=23 (n-2)+72+35 . Solving we get n = 13 n=13 .

Abhi Nandan
Oct 23, 2014

by finding the supplementary angles of the exterior angles given
we get sum of those 2 interior angles to be 253 WKT , no. of angles = no. of sides

sum of iterior angles of a n-gon is (n-2)*180

it is given that all other exterior angles are 23 degrees so all other interior angles must be 157

now ,

253+157(n-2) = (n-2)*180

by further simplification we get "n" as 13

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