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Difficulty: 3/102022 NMTC 2022 (QII-52)

If the measure of each interior angle of regular polygon is 150°, then the number of its diagonals will be ________.

Guide / Hint

Hint 1: Calculate the measure of each exterior angle by subtracting the interior angle () from .

Hint 2: Determine the number of sides by dividing by the exterior angle ().

Hint 3: Substitute into the diagonals formula: .

Solution

Step 1 (Find Exterior Angle): In a regular polygon, the sum of an interior angle and its corresponding exterior angle is . We are given that each interior angle is :

Step 2 (Determine Number of Sides n): The sum of all exterior angles in any convex polygon is always . For a regular polygon with sides:

So the polygon is a regular dodecagon (12 sides).

Step 3 (Calculate Number of Diagonals): The formula for the number of diagonals in a polygon of sides is:

Substituting :

Step 4 (Conclusion): The regular polygon has exactly 54 diagonals.

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