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geometry intermediate

Problem

Let equal the number of sides in a regular polygon. For , how many values of result in a regular polygon where the common degree measure of the interior angles is not an integer?
Solution
The number of degrees is the sum of the interior angles of an -gon is . If the -gon is regular, then each angle measures degrees. If , 4, 5, 6, or 9, then divides evenly into 180, so the number of degrees in each angle is an integer. If , then the number of degrees is , which is not an integer. If , the number of degrees in each angle is . Therefore, only value of between 3 and 9 results in a non-integer degree measure for each interior angle of a regular -gon.
Final answer
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