What is the measure of an exterior angle of a regular decagon

I find the exterior angles to be easier to figure out. An exterior angle is the change in direction at a vertex as you go around the polygon.

The sum of all the exterior angles is

What is the measure of an exterior angle of a regular decagon
,

a whole turn around the polygon, off course. For regular polygons, the angle is the same at each vertex.

For a regular dodecagon, with

What is the measure of an exterior angle of a regular decagon
vertices, each exterior angle measures


, off course. Each interior angle is supplementary to an adjacent exterior angle, so in this case, each interior angle would measure

What is the measure of an exterior angle of a regular decagon
.

Just in case your teacher wants to see formulas, the reasoning above would give you

What is the measure of an exterior angle of a regular decagon
for the measure of the exterior angle of an n-hon (a polygon with n sides), and
What is the measure of an exterior angle of a regular decagon
for the measure of each interior angle.


That last formula can also be thought as coming from the fact that all the interior angles add up to the angles of the triangles you can make by connecting one vertex (choose any) to the other vertices with straight lines.

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