How many sides does this polygon have ?

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The measures (in degrees) of the interior angles in a polygon are consecutive odd integers.

If the largest angle measures 153 degrees, how many sides does this polygon have?


The answer is 10.

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3 solutions

Marta Reece
Apr 16, 2018

The sum of exterior angles is 36 0 360^\circ

The smallest exterior angle is 18 0 15 3 = 2 7 180^\circ-153^\circ=27^\circ

Start adding 27 + 29 + . . 27+29+.. (I used a spreadsheet to make it easy) and it takes 10 numbers to get to 36 0 360^\circ , so the answer is 10 \boxed{10} .

Mahmoud Khattab
Apr 17, 2018

Vijay Simha
Apr 16, 2018

Sum of interior angles of this polygon = 153+151+149+…(153–2(n−1)) = (n–2)∗180

If there are n sides, there are n interior angles.

The second largest angle will be 153 – 2*1. (Since the angles are odd.)

The third largest will be 153 – 2*2.

The smallest will be 153 – 2*(n-1).

This is an arithmetic progression.

Sum of all terms = n (First-term+Last-term)/2 = n (153 +153 – 2(n−1))/2

Solving this you get, n = 10

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