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What is the measure of one exterior angle of a regular polygon having 40 sides?

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Sooooo basically the answer is 9

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Answer:

Exterior angles (in a regular polygon) add to 360°. So you would do 360/40 to get an answer of 9. That is not the fastest solution, but your (n−2)×180∘ is the sum of the interior angles. Since the polygon is regular, each interior angle is therefore n−2n×180∘

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