Question

One exterior angle of a regular pentagon has a measure of (2x). What is the value of x?

Answer 1

x = 36

pentagon has 5 sides . The formula n/360 gives you the measure of each angle in a regular polygon. So in this case n ( stands for number of sides) is 5. Sum of exterior angle of a any polygon is 360. The measure of 1 exterior angle is given. It is 2x.

Now using ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS we can write it as 5/360 = 2x

which is 72=2x

which is 72/2 = x

which is 36 = x

so x = 36.