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Find the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a heptagon.

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The exterior angles of a polygon add up to 360º in measure. For a regular heptagon, each exterior angle has an equal measure xº, so that 7xº = 360º, or xº ≈ 51.43º. Interior angles supplement exterior angles, so they each have measure 180º - xº ≈ 128.57º. Multiply this by 7 to get a total of 900º.

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