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What is a polygon with 9 sides called?
What is a polygon with 9 sides called?
- Heptagon
- Octagon
- Decagon
- Nonagon (correct)
What is the boundary of a region of the plane that is called a solid polygon?
What is the boundary of a region of the plane that is called a solid polygon?
- Body (correct)
- Interior
- Area
- Polygonal chain
What does a simple polygon not do?
What does a simple polygon not do?
- Have vertices
- Lie in a single plane
- Have edges
- Intersect itself (correct)
What do you call the points where two edges of a polygon meet?
What do you call the points where two edges of a polygon meet?
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From which languages does the word 'polygon' derive?
From which languages does the word 'polygon' derive?
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What is the method for computing the length of a closed piecewise smooth plane curve?
What is the method for computing the length of a closed piecewise smooth plane curve?
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Who is the mathematician known to have approximated the perimeter of a circle by surrounding it with regular polygons?
Who is the mathematician known to have approximated the perimeter of a circle by surrounding it with regular polygons?
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Which theory describes the generalized notion of perimeter for hypersurfaces bounding volumes in n-dimensional Euclidean spaces?
Which theory describes the generalized notion of perimeter for hypersurfaces bounding volumes in n-dimensional Euclidean spaces?
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Why are polygons fundamental to determining perimeters?
Why are polygons fundamental to determining perimeters?
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How is the length L of a closed piecewise smooth plane curve related to x'(t) and y'(t)?
How is the length L of a closed piecewise smooth plane curve related to x'(t) and y'(t)?
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