(Nee Gow ‘Imagine - or draw ~ a triangle ‘on the floor, + Start halfway along one of ‘the sides and wak along the sides of the tangle. By the time you return to your staring postion, you wil have ‘rade a compet turn, or 360" + Repeat wth other polygons ‘You always turn round once, because you turn through the exterior angles, which always add up to 360° a The maximum number of right angies in a triangles 1, but in a uadnlateral 4, = Find the maximum number (of (interior right angies ina pentagon and in a hexagon, Polygons A polygon 's the general name for a closed shape made of three or more straight sides, ‘The angles in a polygon * A hexagon has 6 sides, and can be split into 4 triangles from a vertex. 50 the angles of a hexagon add up to 4180 = 720°, ‘+ A decagon has 10 sides, and can be spit into 8 angles from a vertex 50 the angles of @ decagon add up to 8 x 180 = 1440°, Generally, an n-sided polygon can be split into (n ~ 2) triangles. 0 they have an angle sum of (7 ~ 2) x 180°. ‘These angles inside the polygon are called interior angles, Exterior angles make a straight line with the intetior angies, rts angle sterir angle 0 an exterior angle and the interior angle are supplementary {add up to 180°), ‘The exterior anes of any polygon add up to 360° ‘A regular polygon has al sides equal and al angles equal, S0 a regular hexagon has 6 equal angles of 720 + 6 = 120% Names and angle properties of polygons Number of sides Name ‘Angle sum 3 “Tangle 180° 4 [Quachilteral 2% 180 = 360° 5 Pentagon, 3x 180 = 540° 6 Hexagon 4x 180 = 720° 7 Heptagon 5 x 180 = 900° 8 ‘Octagon 6 * 180 = 1080" 9 Nonagon 7x 180 = 1260° 0 Dacagon 8 180 = 1440Solving problems ‘The interior and exterior angle properties of polygons can be used to solve probiems, For example, 2 set of congruent requar pentagons are connected 10 mmoke a bop. ‘To plove that they form a regular decagon atthe centre: The exterior ange ofa reguiar pentagon = 350 = 5 = 72°, $0 the imerior ances are all 180 - 72 = 108° ‘Angles a and b are each 108°. So the remaining angle c = 360 ~ (2 x 108) ads, But the exterior angle of @ reguiar decagon = 360 + 10 = 36%, ‘And the interior angle = 180 ~ 36 = 144°. But this true for all the angles in the central shape. So the central shape is 2 regular dacagon