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prealgebra intermediate

Problem

Regular pentagon and regular hexagon are drawn on opposite sides of line segment such that they are coplanar. What is the degree measure of exterior angle ?
problem
Solution
We know that the sum of the degree measures of the interior angles of a polygon can be found using the formula where is the total number of sides of the polygon. Since the polygons in this problem are regular, each interior angle measure can be found by substituting the appropriate into the formula . From this, we know that , an interior angle of a regular pentagon, has degree measure . We also have that , an interior angle of a regular hexagon, has degree measure .

Finally, we know that the angle measures of , , and must sum to , so has an angle measure of degrees.
Final answer
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