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what is the smallest number of degrees needed to rotate a regular Pentagon around its center onto itself?

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One rotation has 360 degrees. Since regular Pentagon has 5 sides and each of them takes 360/5=72 degrees when looked from center, if we rotate regular Pentagon by 72 degrees we will get same shape as we started from.

Therefore answer is 72 degrees.
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