Student Council members are designing a large poster that will tell people who each member is and what position each person holds. Each member gets a triangle piece of paper to decorate, then all the pieces will be fitted together to form the final display. The triangles are identical and fit together to form a regular polygon. It will look similar to the shape below: A) If there are 8 council members, what type of polygon will be formed?
B) To achieve this shape, what type of triangles will the individual pieces be? What will be the measures of each of the three angles in each of the triangles?
C) What will be the sum of the measures of the internal angles of the final shape?
D) Redo parts (b) and (c) if the Council decides to include triangles for the two staff advisors, assuming the poster will still form a regular polygon, but now with 10 triangles.

A) With 8 council members, the polygon formed with the triangles will be an octagon.

The final shape should look just like the one you posted with your question.

B) The individual pieces should be isosceles triangles. The three angles of each triangle should measure 45°, 67.5° and 67.5°.

We need two sides of the triangles to be the same. The base of the triangle's length will depend on the number of triangles we are using to form the final polygon.

The number of triangles will define the angle between the two sides of equal length. You can find this by dividing 360° into the number of triangles:

The other two angles should measure the same, so we can find them by subtracting the 45° from 180° (which is what we get when adding the three angles of any triangle) and then dividing the answer into 2.

180°-45°=135°

C) The sum of the measures of the internal angles of the final shape should add up to 360°, that way we can guarantee that the figure is closed:

45°+45°+45°+45°+45°+45°+45°+45°=360°

D)

D.B) The individual pieces should be isosceles triangles. The three angles of each triangle should measure 36°, 72° and 72°.

The number of triangles will define the angle between the two sides of equal length. You can find this by dividing 360° into the number of triangles:

The other two angles should measure the same, so we can find them by subtracting the 36° from 180° (which is what we get when adding the three angles of any triangle) and then dividing the answer into 2.

180°-36°=144°

C) The sum of the measures of the internal angles of the final shape should add up to 360°, that way we can guarantee that the figure is closed:

36°+36°+36°+36°+36°+36°+36°+36°+36°+36°=360°

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3. parallelogram

step-by-step explanation:

we turn each of our sides into direction vectors

ab=b-a=(3 - 7, 1 - 0) = (-4, 1)

bc=c-b=(1,6)

cd=d-c=(4,-1)

da=a-d=(-1,-6)

we see how the opposite sides have negated direction vectors; this is characteristic of a parallelogram.   we have congruent sides ab=cd and bc=da with unequal lengths because 1^2+6^2 is different from (-4)^2+1^2.   so it's not a square or a rhombus.  

we check the dot product of direction vectors of adjacent sides.   we have

ab dot bc = -4(1) + 1(6) = 2

that's not zero so the sides are not perpendicular.   we've ruled out rectangle.

the direction vectors indicate two pairs of congruent parallel sides, so we choose parallelogram over trapezoid.

10a^3+277a^2-132a-792

step-by-step explanation:

(2a+11)(5a-12)(foil)

=10a^2-24a+55a-132 =10a^2+31a-132

(10a^2+31a-132)(a+6)

=10a^3+60a^2+31a^2+186a^2-132a-792 =10a^3+277a^2-132a-792

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