What's that angle?

Geometry Level 1

A B C D E ABCDE is a regular pentagon. Find the measure of the angle (in degrees) between A C AC and B D BD .


The answer is 72.

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The colored dots indicate angles of equal measure. Due to symmetry B C F \triangle BCF is isosceles and is similar to A D E \triangle ADE . Therefore B F C = A E D = 10 8 \angle BFC = \angle AED = 108^\circ and C F D = 18 0 10 8 = 7 2 \angle CFD = 180^\circ - 108^\circ = \boxed{72^\circ} .

Ossama Ismail
Sep 7, 2020

Add: "Since tri. DCB and tri. ABC are equilateral triangles we can see that: "

Nikolas Кraj - 6 months, 1 week ago
Hosam Hajjir
Sep 5, 2020

B D BD is a rotation of A C AC by an angle of 36 0 5 = 7 2 \dfrac{360^{\circ}}{5} = 72^{\circ} , so this is the angle between the two line segments.

You should add on the statement that we're looking for the acute angle (even though it's visible on the picture)

Veselin Dimov - 5 months, 2 weeks ago

En-Hedu Anna
Oct 3, 2020

You guys can do 1) Si=( n-3) * 180 and divide the result for 2 . so Si=540° where n= the number of sides of the figure that is 5.

2) the figure has equal sides so the diagonal makes 2 oposite angules that has the same value in the figures that appers as a parallelogram. So if we know 1 angle is 108° and the other angle near to the ? angle is 108° we also can conclude that 108° + ?° will give us 180 because the sum of an internal angle with the external angle is equal to 180°

3) then 108 + ?°= 180 ?°= 180-108 ?°=72

S Broekhuis
Jan 26, 2021

In a pentagon all angles add up to 540°. In a regular pentagon this means each of the 5 angles is 540°/5=108°. So angle A= angle B= angle C= angle D= angle E=108°.

Since in a regular pentagon all sides are of equal length that means that AB=BC=CD=DE=EA. So triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle with equal sides AB and BC and a top corner B of 108°. In an isosceles triangle both base angles are the same, in triangle ABC that means that angle A=angle C= 180 ° 108 ° 2 \frac{180°-108°}{2} =36°.

If we then look at triangle CDF we can see that we have an angle C of 108°-36°=72°. Angle D is the same angle as angle C in triangle ABC so angle D=36°. Angle F the angle we're looking for, then must be 180°-72°-36°=72°.

Is angle E is 108 degree and AEDF (F is that intersection point) is parallelogram so angleE=angleF now by linear theor. Required angle would be 180-108= 72.

In isosceles B C D \triangle BCD we see D B C = B D C \angle DBC=\angle BDC so it's clear that E D B = A B D \angle EDB = \angle ABD , by similarity of F D C \triangle FDC and F A B \triangle FAB , E D B = A B D = A C D \angle EDB = \angle ABD = \angle ACD , an angle in a regular pentagon is 108 = E D B + B D C = A C D + B D C 108 = \angle EDB + \angle BDC = \angle ACD + \angle BDC , so in B C D \triangle BCD , ? = 180 108 = 72 \angle ? = 180-108 = \boxed{72} .

Alex Qin
Oct 18, 2020

Suppose the angle x. Observing the pantagon we can get the equation 180 - (x/2)*3 = 108 - 2/x . Solving this equation we get x = 72.

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