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How do hexagons and pentagons tessellate?
:L I Need Help With This Do Hexagons, Tesselate ?
What regular polygons tessellate by themselves?
Triangles, squares and hexagons will tesselate with themselves. If you want to know why, calculate the angle measure for each of these shapes and you will see that each is a factor of 360. The same cannot be said for pentagons, heptagons, etc.
Are the diagonals of regular pentagons perpendicular?
no
The dodecahedron can be constructed from the repetitive folding of?
regular pentagons
Other than squares the polygons that can be the face of a Platonic solid are and?
equilateral triangles and regular pentagons
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