Given that the measure of each external angle is , find the number of sides of the mystery polygon.
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The sum of all external angles in any polygon is 360 degrees.
If the polygon is regular, then all the external angles will be equal.
Here it is given that all external angles are equal and equal to 24 degrees.
So, 2 4 n = 3 6 0 ⟶ n = 1 5 , where n is the number of sides of the polygon.