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OpenStudy (anonymous):

You need to construct a regular polygon. When you draw two sides, the interior angle created between them is 144°, illustrated below.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What will be the sum, in degrees, of the measures of the interior angles of this polygon when it is completed?

Directrix (directrix):

Do you know or use the formula for the sum of the angles of a convex polygon with n sides?

OpenStudy (shayaan_mustafa):

for regular polygons\[\large \frac {180(n-2)}{n}\]

OpenStudy (shayaan_mustafa):

where n= number of sides

Directrix (directrix):

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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