That's why they're called pentagons.
The root penta- comes from the Greek word for five.
All pentagons have five sides. When you see a five sided figure you will always know it's a pentagon.
The Pentagon
no - parallelograms have four sides; pentagons have five.
No, parallelograms always have four sides and two sets of parallel sides. Pentagons have five sides only sometimes have parallel sides.
There are 11 times 5 = 55 sides in 11 pentagons.
A pentagon has five sides, and a quadrilateral has four sides. So five pentagons and three quadrilaterals have 5*5 + 3*4 sides = 25 + 12 sides = 37 sides.
No, not all pentagons have exactly five congruent sides. A pentagon is defined simply as a five-sided polygon, and its sides can vary in length. While a regular pentagon has all five sides equal in length and all angles equal, irregular pentagons can have sides of different lengths and angles.
Pentagons are really just any shape that has five sides
Pentagons have 5 sides and they can be regular or irregular
Five-sided shapes are called pentagons.
If the they are plain figures ( 2 - dimensional), then they are pentagons. Remember you Latin ; 'Penta' means five(5). Pentagons can be regular ( all sides the same length ) , or irregular ( the sides are of different lengths).
yes. The word "pentagon" itself means 5 sides.