The figure is made up of a regular pentagon ABCDE and a regular hexagon CDFGHI.

  1. (a)

    Find angle BCI.

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  2. (b)

    Determine whether BC and CI are two sides of another regular polygon. Justify your answers with mathematical working.

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17(a)

1. Identify the two known interior angles at vertex C

At CC, the interior angle of the regular pentagon is
∠BCD=108∘.\angle BCD=108^\circ.
The interior angle of the regular hexagon is
∠DCI=120∘.\angle DCI=120^\circ.

2. Use angles at a point to find angle BCI

Angles around point CC add up to 360∘360^\circ.

Thus,
∠BCI=360∘−108∘−120∘=132∘.\angle BCI=360^\circ-108^\circ-120^\circ=132^\circ.

Answer

132∘132^\circ

17(b)

1. Relate angle BCI to the interior angle of the possible regular polygon

From part (a),
∠BCI=132∘.\angle BCI=132^\circ.
If BCBC and CICI are two adjacent sides of another regular polygon, then 132∘132^\circ would be its interior angle.

2. Check whether the angle gives a whole number of sides

Exterior angle of the possible regular polygon:
180∘−132∘=48∘.180^\circ-132^\circ=48^\circ.
For a regular polygon,
number of sides=360∘exterior angle=36048=7.5.\text{number of sides}=\frac{360^\circ}{\text{exterior angle}}=\frac{360}{48}=7.5.
Since 7.57.5 is not a whole number, such a regular polygon cannot exist.

Answer

No. If BCBC and CICI were adjacent sides of a regular polygon, its exterior angle would be 48∘48^\circ, so the number of sides would be 36048=7.5\dfrac{360}{48}=7.5, not a whole number.

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