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Which of the following is the number of sides for a regular polygon that willnot form a regular tessellation?A. 3B. 7C. 4D. 6

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The question requires that we find the number of sides for a regular polygon that will not form a regular tesselation.

To solve this we need to understand what a regular tessellation is;

A regular tessellation is a highly symmetric, edge-to-edge tiling made up of regular polygons, all of the same shape. There are only three regular tessellations: those made up of equilateral triangles, squares, or regular hexagons.

From the above, we can clearly see that there are three possible options for the number of sides for a regular tessellation.

1) Triangle(3sides)

2)square(four sides)

3)Hexagon ( six sides)

This implies that the odd one out, that is the number of sides that will not form a regular tessellation is

ANSWER: OPTION B

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