Think about a square. Now imagine cutting off one corner. Draw and name the shape that is left?

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Dec 7, 2017

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Explanation:

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A square is an object with 4 equal sides and the sides are at right angles to each other.

If we cut off one corner, there are now 5 sides. However, all of the sides are not the same length.

Therefore this is a 5 sided polygon with different length sides.

A 5 sided polygon is called a pentagon

When all of the lengths of the sides of a polygon are not equal it is call irregular

The shape that is left after cutting off a corner from a square is an:

irregular pentagon