Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Chocolates!

This is a picture of a Nestle chocolate tin container I saw at my friend's house. This demonstrates the theorem stating, "The sum of the measures of the angles of a convex polygon with n sides is (n-2)180." The chocolate tin was in the shape of an octagon, which obviously has eight sides. So the sum of the measures of the interior angles of this polygon is (8-6)180=1080 degrees. Each individual angle was 135 degrees, and 135(8)=1080. Yay! (~RG1)

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