You need to construct a regular polygon. When you draw two sides, the interior angle created between them is 144°, illustrated below.
What will be the sum, in degrees, of the measures of the interior angles of this polygon when it is completed?
Do you know or use the formula for the sum of the angles of a convex polygon with n sides?
for regular polygons\[\large \frac {180(n-2)}{n}\]
where n= number of sides
If the interior angles of a regular polygon is 144, then the adjacent and supplementary exterior angle has measure 36. The sum of the exterior angles of a regular polygon is 360. If each angle has measure 36 and the exterior angles sum to 360, then there are 360/36 = 10 exterior angles and 10 interior angles. The polygon is a decagon with 10 sides. The sum of the interior angle measures would then be 10(144) = 1440.
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