An interior angle of a regular polygon is 5 times each exterior angle. How many sides has the polygon?
Answer Details
In a regular polygon, each exterior angle is equal to 360 degrees divided by the number of sides. Let the number of sides be represented by n. Therefore, the measure of each exterior angle is 360/n.
Since the interior angle and exterior angle are supplementary, we can write:
Interior angle + Exterior angle = 180 degrees
Let x be the measure of each interior angle. We are given that each interior angle is 5 times each exterior angle, so:
x = 5(360/n - x)
Simplifying and solving for x, we get:
x = 150 degrees
The sum of the interior angles of an n-sided polygon is (n - 2) × 180 degrees. Since each interior angle in our polygon is 150 degrees, we can write:
n × 150 = (n - 2) × 180
Simplifying and solving for n, we get:
n = 12
Therefore, the polygon has 12 sides. So, the correct answer is 12.