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prealgebra intermediate
Problem
The number of degrees in the measures of the interior angles of a convex pentagon are five consecutive integers. What is the number of degrees in the largest angle?
Solution
Suppose we list the angle measures in increasing order. Let be the measure of the middle angle in degrees. Then, the five angles have measures , , , , and . The sum of the angle measures in a pentagon is degrees, so Simplifying the left side gives , and dividing both sides by 5 gives . Therefore, the largest angle has measure .
Final answer
110^\circ