Angles in Polygons & Parallel Lines (Edexcel IGCSE Maths)

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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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Here is a 10-sided polygon.

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Work out the value of x.

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

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11
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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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The diagram shows a triangle.

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Work out the value of x.

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

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

Circle your answer.

18° 36° 144° 162°
       

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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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16
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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 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         size 26px square No

Show working to support your answer.

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18
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Here is a sketch of a quadrilateral.

All lengths are in centimetres.

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Tick one box for each statement.

  True May be true Not true
The quadrilateral is a rectangle      
The quadrilateral is a parallelogram      
The quadrilateral is a rhombus      
The quadrilateral is a kite      

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Tick all the statements that are true for any rhombus.

square  The diagonals are lines of symmetry

size 26px square  The diagonals bisect each other

size 26px square  The diagonals are perpendicular

size 26px square  The diagonals are equal in length

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20a
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Work out the size of the exterior angle of a regular 12-sided polygon.

20b
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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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21a
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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 begin mathsize 16px style c degree end style are shown.

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Insert  a degree comma space b degree° or begin mathsize 16px style c degree end style to make this statement true.
Give a reason for your answer.

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

21b
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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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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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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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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 B, B 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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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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19a
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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.

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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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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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A B comma space C D and E F are straight lines.

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Ava assumes that space A B spaceand C D are parallel.

What answer should she get for the size of angle y?

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

9b
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In fact,

A B and C D are not parallel
anglespace w space is 60°

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

begin mathsize 28px style square end style y is bigger
begin mathsize 28px style square end style y is the same
begin mathsize 28px style square end style y is smaller

Show working to support your answer.

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A B comma space C D and Y Z are straight lines.

All angles are in degrees.

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Show that A B is parallel to C D.

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11a
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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°.

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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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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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