Stage 16 · Quadrilaterals & Polygons

16.1.3 The Interior-Angle Sum of a Polygon

16.1 From Triangles into Polygons

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16.1.3 The Interior-Angle Sum of a Polygon

Core idea

Draw diagonals from one vertex to slice it into triangles, an n-gon splits into (n-2) of them, so the interior angles add up to (n-2)·180°

Module goal. Take the triangles you just learned, join and generalize them into polygons, and master the language of polygons along with the two core relationships: interior-angle sum and exterior-angle sum
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