What is the minimum interior angle possible for a regular polygon? Why?

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(a) What is the minimum interior angle possible for a regular polygon? Why?
(b) What is the maximum exterior angle possible for a regular polygon?

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answered Dec 25, 2017 by anukriti (13,536 points) 5 10 41
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Solution: (a) Triangle is the polygon with minimum number of sides and an equilateral triangle is a regular polygon because all sides are equal in this. We know that each angle of an equilateral triangle measures 60 degree. Hence, 60 degree is the minimum possible value for internal angle of a regular polygon.

(b) Each exterior angle of an equilateral triangle is 120 degree and hence this the maximum possible value of exterior angle of a regular polygon. This can also be proved by another principle; which states that each exterior angle of a regular polygon is equal to 360 divided by number of sides in the polygon. If 360 is divided by 3, we get 120.

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