polygons Flashcards
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what is a polygon?
plane figure with at least three straight sides and angles and has to be closed
triangle
3
quadrilateral
4
pentagon
5
hexagon
6
heptagon
7
octagon
8
nonagon, enneagon
9
decagon
10
dodecagon
12
icosagon
20
convex polygon
all diagonals can be connected on the inside of the polygon
concave polygon
at least one diagonal connects on the outside of the polygon
triangles formed by diagonals from one vertex
n-2
sum of angles in a polygon
180(n-2)
total # of diagonals in a n-gon
n(n-3)/2
measure of each exterior angle
360/n
in a polygon this word describes the relationship between any interior angle and its adjacent exterior angle
linear pair
the more common name for a tetragon-the polygon whose interior angles add to 360
quadrilateral
Pick’s theorem
A=i+p/2-1
What does the word probability mean
the chances of you getting something
the numeric values that a probability can be are between
0 and 1
probabilities can be expressed in 4 different ways
percent,ratio,decimal,fraction
the size of the feasible region
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