What is the measurement of an interior angle of a Pentagon?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-20T14:11:57

#color(blue)(108^@#

The sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon is given by:

#180^@n-360^@#

Where #bbn# is the number of sides:

A pentagon has 5 sides, so:

#180^@(5)-360^@=540^@#

Since we have 5 sides we also have 5 interior angles. One interior angle is therefore:

#(540^@)/5=108^@#