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What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular hexagon?

What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular hexagon?

Answer and explanation

Answer: J: 720°

The interior angles of an nn-sided polygon sum to (n−2)(180∘)(n-2)(180^\circ). For a hexagon, n=6n=6, so the sum is 4(180∘)=720∘4(180^\circ)=720^\circ, choice J. You can see this by drawing diagonals from one vertex, which splits a hexagon into 44 triangles. Choice F (540∘540^\circ) uses n=5n=5, the pentagon. Choice H (900∘900^\circ) uses n=7n=7, the heptagon. Choice G (1080∘1080^\circ) uses n=8n=8, the octagon. Each wrong choice corresponds to a polygon with the wrong number of sides, so count the sides carefully. Each interior angle of a regular hexagon is 120∘120^\circ.

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