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Help for Math Challenge I-B(c) (AMC8/MathCounts) Fall 2017 (Geometry)

 
 
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Help for Math Challenge I-B(c) (AMC8/MathCounts) Fall 2017 (Geometry)
by Weston Zong - Monday, October 16, 2017, 4:48 PM
 

So, basically, i don't know how to this problem in the handout for math challenge 1-B(c) (AMC8/MathCounts) Fall 2017 (geometry)

i don't get how to understand it and what polygon P looks like

please send help ASAP

homework is due on Wednesday!!! This Wednesday.

P.S. If you help, thank you!

My teacher is professor David, btw

The problem is 5.23


 
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Re: Help for Math Challenge I-B(c) (AMC8/MathCounts) Fall 2017 (Geometry)
by David Reynoso - Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 10:15 AM
 

Remember what we did on problem 5.3 in class. In this problem, polygon $P$ is the figure that you get after gluing together the two pentagons and the other polygon together.

As an example, if the problem was saying that you want to glue together $4$ equilateral triangles, and $1$ regular hexagon, all of them with the same side length, polygon $P$ would look like this:


 
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Re: Help for Math Challenge I-B(c) (AMC8/MathCounts) Fall 2017 (Geometry)
by Weston Zong - Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 2:59 PM
 

Ok thanks, David

 
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