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Example Question #1 : Pentagons

The perimeter of a regular pentagon is 40 units. What is the area of the pentagon?

Possible Answers:

$A=\frac{25}{4}\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}$

$A=8\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}$

$A=2\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}$

$A=16\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}$

Correct answer:

$A=16\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}$

Explanation:

The formula for the area of a regular pentagon is given by the equation:

$A=\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}a^2$

where a is represented by the length of one side. Let's begin by finding the side length of the regular pentagon. If the perimeter is 40, then we can divide by 5 (the number of sides) to find a side length of 8.

If we plug in 8 into the equation:

$A=\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}(8)^2$

$A=\frac{1}{4}\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}64$

$A=\frac{64}{4}\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}$

$A=16\sqrt{5(5+2\sqrt{5})}$

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Example Question #1 : How To Find An Angle In A Pentagon

In a five-sided polygon, one angle measures $105^\circ$ . What are the possible measurements of the other angles?

Possible Answers:

105, 105, 105, 110

115, 95, 110, 120

120, 115, 95, 105

145, 155, 160, 155

160, 160, 150, 140

Correct answer:

120, 115, 95, 105

Explanation:

To find the sum of the interior angles of any polygon, use the formula $(n-2)\cdot 180$ , where n represents the number of sides of a polygon.

In this case:

$(5-2)\cdot 180=540$

The sum of the interior angles will be 540. Go through each answer choice and see which one adds up to 540 (including the original angle given in the problem).

The only one that does is 120, 115, 95, 105 and the original angle of 105.

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Example Question #51 : Geometry

In a particular heptagon (a seven-sided polygon) the sum of four equal interior angles, each equal to degrees, is equivalent to the sum of the remaining three interior angles.

Quantity A:

Quantity B: 110

Possible Answers:

The two quantities are equal.

Quantity B is greater

The relationship cannot be determined.

Quantity A is greater.

Correct answer:

Quantity A is greater.

Explanation:

The sum of interior angles in a heptagon is 900 degrees. Note that to find the sum of interior angles of any polygon, it is given by the formula:

(s-2)180 degrees, where is the number of sides of the polygon.

Three interior angles (call them b,c,d ) are unknown, but we are told that the sum of them is equal to the sum of four other equivalent angles (which we'll designate ):

4a=b+c+d

Further more, all of these angles must sum up to 900 degrees:

4a+b+c+d=900

We may not be able to find , , or , indvidually, but the problem does not call for that, and we need only use their relation to , as stated in the first equation with them. Utilizing this in the second, we find:

4a+4a=900

$a=\frac{900}{8}=112.5$

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Example Question #3 : How To Find An Angle In A Pentagon

Pentagon2

What is the value of in the figure above?

Possible Answers:

97.5

210

195

105

Correct answer:

97.5

Explanation:

Always begin working through problems like this by filling in all available information. We know that we can fill in two of the angles, giving us the following figure:

Pentagon2 2

Now, we know that for any polygon, the total number of degrees in the figure can be calculated by the equation:

d = 180 *(s-2) , where is the number of sides.

Thus, for our figure, we have:

d = 180 * 3 = 540

Based on this, we know:

540 = 110+50 - a + 135 + a + 50 + 2a

Simplifying, we get:

540 = 345 + 2a

Solving for , we get:

195 = 2a or a = 97.5

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Example Question #4 : How To Find An Angle In A Pentagon

Pentagon1

Quantity A: The measure of the largest angle in the figure above.

Quantity B: 120

Which of the following is true?

Possible Answers:

The relationship cannot be determined.

Quantity B is larger.

The two quantities are equal.

Quantity A is larger.

Correct answer:

Quantity A is larger.

Explanation:

Pentagon1

To begin, recall that the total degrees in any figure can be calculated by:

d = 180 * (s-2) , where represents the total number of sides. Thus, we know for our figure that:

d = 3*180 = 540

Now, based on our figure, we can make the equation:

a+2a+3a+120+80 = 540

Simplifying, we get:

6a = 340 or a = 56.6666666666666....

This means that is 170 . Quantity A is larger.

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