Angles in Polygons & Parallel Lines (Edexcel GCSE Maths: Higher)

Exam Questions

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A B C and D E F are parallel lines.
B E G is a straight line.
Angle G E F equals space 47 degree.

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give reasons for your answer.

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A B C comma space P Q R and A Q D are straight lines.
A B C is parallel to P Q R.

Angle B A Q space equals space 35 degree
Angle B Q A space equals space 90 degree

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give reasons for each stage of your working.

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P R S and T W Y are parallel straight lines.
Q R W Z is a straight line.

Work out the value of x.
Give reasons for your answer.

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A B C comma space D E F and P Q R S are parallel lines.
B E Q is a straight line.

Angle A B E space equals space 60 degree.
Angle Q E R space equals space 80 degree.

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give reasons for each stage of your working.

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The diagram shows a regular octagon and a regular hexagon.

Find the size of the angle marked x.
You must show all your working.

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A B C D E and P Q R S T are regular pentagons.

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S R is parallel to D C.
A P space equals space B Q space equals space C R space equals space D S space equals space E T

Work out the size of angle S R C.
You must show all your working.

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R S and S T are 2 sides of a regular 12-sided polygon.
R T is a diagonal of the polygon.

Work out the size of angle S T R.
You must show your working.

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C D E F is a straight line.
A B is parallel to C F.
D E space equals space A E.

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
You must give reasons for your answer.

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A B C D E is a pentagon.

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Angle B C D space equals space space 2 space cross times angle A B C.

Work out the size of angle B C D.
You must show all your working.

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10
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Part of a regular polygon with 15 sides is shown.

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Work out the size of an interior angle.

....................................................degrees

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The diagram shows a triangle.

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Work out the value of x.

x = ..................

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12a
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Work out the size of the exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.

12b
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Use your answer to part (a) to write down the size of the interior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.

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Here is a 10-sided polygon.

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Work out the value of x.

x space equals.................................................

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5 marks
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The diagram shows a parallelogram A B C D and an isosceles triangle D E F in which D E space equals space D F

C D F and A D E are straight lines.
Angle B C D space equals space 58 degree

Work out the size of angle D E F.
Give a reason for each stage of your working.

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15a
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The diagram shows triangle ABC.
CD is parallel to AB.
A, C and E lie in a straight line.
Angles of size space a degree comma space b degreeand c degree are shown.

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Insert  a degree comma space b degree° or c degree to make this statement true.
Give a reason for your answer.

Angle DCE = ......... because ....................................................................................................

15b
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Use the diagram and the answer to part (a) to show that the angles of a triangle add up to 180°.

Give a reason for each statement you make.

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Each interior angle of a regular polygon is 162°
Work out the number of sides the polygon has.

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17
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What is the size of an exterior angle of a regular decagon?

Circle your answer.

18°

36°

144°

162°

 

 

 

 

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18
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The sum of the angles in any quadrilateral is 360°

For example, in a rectangle 4 × 90° = 360°

Zak writes,

   5 × 90° = 450° so the sum of the angles in any pentagon must be 450°

Is he correct?

Tick a box.

      square Yes         square No

Show working to support your answer.

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19
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The exterior angle of a regular polygon is 45°

Circle the name of the regular polygon.

pentagon

hexagon

octagon

decagon

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1
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A B C D is a parallelogram.

Angle A D B space equals space 38 degree.
Angle B E C space equals space 41 degree.
Angle D A B space equals space 120 degree.

Calculate the size of angle x.
You must give reasons for your answer.

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A B C is parallel to E F G H.

G B space equals space G F
Angle A B F space equals space 65 degree

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give reasons for your answer.

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A B C D and E F G are parallel lines.
B C space equals space C F
Angle B F E space equals space 70 degree

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give reasons for each stage of your working.

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A B C and D E are parallel lines.
A E G and B E F are straight lines.

Angle A E D space equals space 54 degree
Angle F E G space equals space 70 degree

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give a reason for each stage of your working.

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A B C and E D C are straight lines.
A E and B D are parallel.
Angle A B D space equals space 125 degree
Angle B C D space equals space 30 degree

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give reasons for your answer.

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A B C D is a parallelogram.
E D C is a straight line.
F is the point on A D so that B F E is a straight line.

Angle E F D space equals space 35 degree
Angle D C B space equals space 75 degree

Show that angle A B F space equals space 70 degree
Give a reason for each stage of your working.

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A E comma space D B G and C F are parallel.
D A space equals space D B space equals space D C.
Angle E A B space equals angle B C F equals space 38 degree

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
You must show your working.

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The diagram shows a pattern using four identical rhombuses.

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Work out the size of the angle marked a.
You must show your working.

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A B C D E F G H is a regular octagon.
B C K F G J is a hexagon.

J K is a line of symmetry of the hexagon.
Angle B J G equals angle C K F equals space 140 degree

Work out the size of angle K F E.
You must show all your working.

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10
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4 marks

The diagram shows part of a pattern made from tiles.

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The pattern is made from two types of tiles, tile A and tile B.

Both tile A and tile B are regular polygons.

Work out the number of sides tile A has.

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A B C D E is a regular pentagon.
A C F G is a square.

Work out the size of angle D C F.
You must show all your working.

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4 marks
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A B C D E F G H is a regular octagon.
K L Q F P and M N R E Q are two identical regular pentagons.

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
You must show all your working.

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In the diagram, A BB C and C D are three sides of a regular polygon P.

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Show that polygon P is a hexagon.
You must show your working.

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Here is a parallelogram.

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Work out the value of x and the value of y.

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The diagram shows a square and 4 regular pentagons.

Work out the size of the angle marked x.

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A G C and D E F are parallel lines.
A D B and G E are parallel lines. B E C is a straight line.

Angle D B E space equals space 95 degree
Angle C G E space equals space 55 degree

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
Give reasons for each stage of your working.

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A B C D E is a regular pentagon.
B C F and E D F are straight lines.

Work out the size of angle C F D.
You must show how you got your answer.

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18a
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An interior angle of an isosceles triangle is p° and an exterior angle is q °.

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It is given that q = 5p .
Write the ratio p : q in its simplest form.

18b
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Work out the two different possible sets of angles for the isosceles triangle.

Triangle 1: ............°, .............°, .............°
Triangle 2: ............°, .............°, .............°

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Here is a quadrilateral.

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a space equals space 90 degree and a space colon space b space equals space 5 space colon space 3

x space colon space y space equals space 1 space colon space 3

Show that b space equals space x

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The diagram shows a regular pentagon.
A B and C D are two of the lines of symmetry of the pentagon.

Work out the size of the angle marked x.
You must show all your working.

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Here is a pentagon A B C D E.

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A B space equals space B C space equals space B D
A B D E is a kite.

Angle A E D space equals space 40 degree
Angle E D B space equals space 130 degree
Angle B D C space equals space 72 degree

Work out the size of angle A C B.

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A B C D E F G H I is a regular 9-sided polygon.

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The vertices B and E are joined with a straight line.

Work out the size of angle B E F.
You must show how you get your answer.

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The diagram shows a hexagon.
The hexagon has one line of symmetry.

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F A space equals space B C
E F space equals space C D
Angle A B C space equals space 117 degree

Angle B C D space equals space 2 space cross times angle C D E.

Work out the size of angle A F E.
You must show all your working.

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P Q R S T is a regular pentagon.
R comma space U and T are points on a circle, centre O.
Q R and P T are tangents to the circle.
R S U is a straight line.

Prove that S T space equals space U T.

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The diagram shows a regular 10-sided polygon, A B C D E F G H I J

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Show that x space equals space y.

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The diagram shows a regular octagon A B C D E F G H and a regular pentagon A B I J K

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Work out the size of the anglespace x.

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A B comma space B C comma space C D and space D E spaceare four of the sides of a regular decagon.

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Work out the size of angle w.

..............................degrees 

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9a
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Imran joins two tiles together as shown below.
One tile is a regular hexagon and the other tile is a regular pentagon.

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Show that angle straight a is 132°.

9b
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Imran thinks that another tile in the shape of a regular polygon will fit exactly into angle a.

Is Imran correct?
Show your reasoning.

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10a
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AB, CD and EF are straight lines.

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Ava assumes that AB and CD are parallel.
What answer should she get for the size of angle y?

...............................degrees

10b
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In fact,

AB and CD are not parallel
anglespace w space is 60°

What effect does this have on the size of angle y? Tick a box.

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y is bigger

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y is the same

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y is smaller

Show working to support your answer.

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Angle BAE is part of a regular 18-sided polygon.
Angle CAD is part of a regular 10-sided polygon.
The dashed line through A is a line of symmetry of both polygons.

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Work out angle BAC.

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AB, CD and YZ are straight lines.
All angles are in degrees.

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Show that AB is parallel to CD.

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