Icosagon

Geometry Level 1

A polygon has 20 sides.

Find the sum of interior angles of the polygon (in degrees).


The answer is 3240.

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4 solutions

Akhil Bansal
Jul 9, 2015

If a polygon has n sides, then sum of interior angles of polygon is (n-2)*180
You can check the proof at www.khanacademy.com

Moderator note:

Can you write out the proof yourself?

**Hint: Exterior angle = 36 0 n \text{Exterior angle } = \frac{360^\circ} n .

Bonus question : Prove the sum of an interior angle of a square and an interior angle of a regular pentagon is equals to an interior angle of a regular 20-sided polygon.

Callum Farnden
Jul 16, 2015

There are 2 ways to solve this problem.

Firstly, the more direct method is to use the formula where n is the number of edges or angles in the polygon (n-2) 180 = sum of interior angles, which gives: (20-2) 180 = 18*180 = 3240.

Also, the sum of exterior angles in a polygon is 360. Thus, by dividing that number by the number of edges (20), you can find the size of each exterior angle to be 18. As this angle is on a straight line with the interior angle, the interior angle is then 180-18 = 162. As this only give one individual interior angle, multiply by 20 (the number of angles) to give 3240.

There are 2 ways of solving this problem

Method 1

It is simple we can use this formula

n 2 × 180 n-2\times180

and it is equal to 18 × 180 18\times180

which is equal to

= 3240 =3240

Method 2

We can multiply 162 162 which is the size of each interior angle of an icosagon and then multiply it by 20 20 which is the number of sides.

This will also equal to

= 3240 =3240

Ahmed Obaiedallah
Jul 16, 2015

Sum of interior angles of a polygon S n = ( n 2 ) × 180 S_n=(n-2)\times180

So. S 20 = ( 20 2 ) × 180 = 3240 S_{20}=(20-2)\times180=\boxed{3240}

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