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The measure of each interior angle of a regular polygon is 140 degrees. How many sides does the polygon have?
 Dec 2, 2013
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Break up the polygon in your head. Maybe draw a picture of the polygon as a bunch of isosceles triangles that intersect at the center of the circle.
If n stands for the number of sides on the polygon, the angle that goes out from the center is 360/n. That means that the other two angles added together are the angle of the polygon. And since they make up the angle of a triangle, they add to 180 degrees.
NOT difficult at all

So 140+360/n=180
360/n=180-140=40
40*n=360
n=360/40=9
nonagon
 Dec 2, 2013

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