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If the measure of each angle of a regular polygon is 174 degrees, then the measure of each exterior angle is??

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Answer: 6 degrees

Step-by-step explanation:

This is because any pair of adjacent interior and exterior angles must add to 180 degrees. The two angles are supplementary. They form a straight line when glued together.

If x is the exterior angle, then x+174 = 180 solves to x = 6 after subtracting 174 from both sides.

Side note: This regular polygon has 360/x = 360/6 = 60 sides.

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