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What is an exterior angle?
An angle formed by one of the sides of a polygon and extension of its neighboring side.
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What is an irregular polygon?
A polygon in which the sides do not have the same length or the angles do not have the same measure.
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What is the angle sum of a polygon?
The sum of the interior angles of a polygon.
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What are quadrilaterals?
These shapes have the least number of sides and will move freely when built.
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What are diagonals?
These lines stabilize quadrilaterals by turning them into triangles and stopping their shifts.
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What is an interior angle?
An angle inside the polygon.
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What is 1260 degrees?
The angle sum of a regular nonagon.
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What is the expression (n-2)?
The number of triangles that can be made from a polygon with n sides.
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What is (a+b+c>d)?
For a quadrilateral to be made, this inequality must be true in the four sides a, b, c, and d, with d as the longest side.
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What are triangles?
These polygons are often used for construction, due to their inability to shift.
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What is the sum of both exterior and interior angles in a polygon with n sides?
The expression nx180 in a polygon with n sides
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What is 1440 degrees?
The angle sum of a regular decagon.
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What is the angle 180 degrees?
Congrats! You win a DAILY DOUBLE!!! Here is the answer: The angle sum of a triangle.
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What are quadrilateral linkages?
These quadrilateral-based instruments are often used in windshield wipers, handcars, and reclining lawn chairs.
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What is an hypotenuse?
The longest side of a triangle.
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What is 360 degrees?
The exterior angle sum of a triangle
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What is 1800 degrees?
The angle sum of a regular dodecagon.
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What are concave polygons?
The polygons that will make splitting polygons into triangles a bit more difficult.(Tia and Cody's Methods)
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What are frames, couplers, and cranks?
These are the components of quadrilateral linkages.
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What is (a+b>c)?
With three line segments a, b, and c, and c as the hypotenuse of this imaginary triangle, this must be true for a, b, and c to make a triangle.
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What is 360 degrees?
The exterior angle sum of any polygon
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What is (n-2)x180?
The angle sum of a regular polygon with n sides.
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What is the expression (nx180-360)?
Congrats! You win a DAILY DOUBLE!!! Here is the answer: The formula for the angle sum of a polygon with n sides using the fact that n triangles can be made from a point inside that polygon and the inside full turn does not belong to that polygon.
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Who is Franz Grashof?
Congrats! You win a Daily Double! Here is the answer: This German mathematician devised an interesting principle for quadrilateral linkages in 1883.
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What are bridges, towers, and pyramids?
3 locations in which triangles are used.
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