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OpenStudy (iesmee):

What degree of rotation for the regular pentagon will carry the image onto itself? A. 60 B. 72 C. 108 D. 180

OpenStudy (iesmee):

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OpenStudy (iesmee):

can someone help?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Does it have like a specific place from where to rotate?

OpenStudy (iesmee):

no thats just the question

OpenStudy (iesmee):

there's nothing else besides that information above D:

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So its just a drawing(picture) of a regular pentagon.

OpenStudy (iesmee):

yeah

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OKAY wait up

OpenStudy (iesmee):

kk :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/MATH7200/Sect5.1.html

OpenStudy (iesmee):

Can you help me find the answer? I need it right now ):

OpenStudy (iesmee):

can anyone help?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

If you circumscribe a circle around the pentagon, you'll see that you have a vertex of the pentagon at regular intervals corresponding to an angle. There are 5 points that rotate. 5 points that equally spaced. A circle has 360 degrees. 360/5 is ?

OpenStudy (iesmee):

72

OpenStudy (iesmee):

thank you!!!!

OpenStudy (anonymous):

uw! Good luck in all of your studies and thx for the recognition! @IEsmee

OpenStudy (iesmee):

you too

OpenStudy (iesmee):

wait!

OpenStudy (iesmee):

what if its a triangle?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

then you divide that circle of 360 degrees by 3 to get: 360/3 = 120

OpenStudy (iesmee):

thanks c:

OpenStudy (anonymous):

anytime

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