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OpenStudy (highschoolmom2010):

The gift package at the right contains fruit and cheese. The fruit is in a container that has the shape of a regular octagon. The fruit container fits in a square box. A triangular cheese wedge fills each corner of the box. 37. Find the measure of each interior angle of a cheese wedge.

OpenStudy (highschoolmom2010):

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

u got a pic

OpenStudy (dan815):

cool

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

ohk

OpenStudy (dan815):

do the obvious first u now its 90 degree angles on the corners

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

easy, you familiar with regular polygons eh ?

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

all exterior angles add up to 360. same thing we can use here

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

an octagon has 8 sides. so it has 8 extrior angles 8n = 360 n = ?

OpenStudy (highschoolmom2010):

n=45

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

thats it ! one angle 90, other two angles are 45

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

thats 45 degree exterior angle, also the interior angle of yellow cheese wedge

OpenStudy (highschoolmom2010):

is the angles 90 and 45 or just 45 degrees?

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

thats right ! 90 45 45

OpenStudy (dan815):

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ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

a triangle has 3 interior angles btw, so u need to give them 3 angles

OpenStudy (dan815):

this is the property u can work everything with, u have to know for regular octagon there are 8 equal sides

OpenStudy (highschoolmom2010):

@ganeshie8 ill remember that

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

you better :)

OpenStudy (dan815):

hey do u wanna see this way too

OpenStudy (highschoolmom2010):

yes sure

OpenStudy (dan815):

u can work it out on yourself, what every angle will be from this starting point

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

dan ive already shown her in the previous quesitons

OpenStudy (dan815):

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