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Mon 19 Jul, 2004 08:23 am
I need help on alot of math story problems. Please help me by picking the answer you think is best. Thanks!
The sum of the interior angles of a polygon with n sides is 180 x (n -2) or, in this case, 180 x 3 = 540. There are five interior angles. Let us assume merely that the angles are consecutive even or consecutive odd integers and see which turns out to be the case.
Let x = the smallest interior angle, and state the condition that their sum = 540.
x + (x +2) + (x+4) + (x+6) + (x+8) = 540.
Summing up the terms on the left, we get:
5x + 20 = 540.
5x = 520
x = 104
The interior angels are, therefore, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112.
112 is the correct answer.