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Because of the formula: (n-2)*180 = total sum of interior angles where n is the number of sides of the polygon.

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Q: Why do triangles angles add up to 180 instead of 270?
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What is an angle above 180 but less than 270?

There are all the angles between 180 and 270that lie between 180 degrees and 270 degrees angles


Some triangles have three right angles?

no. The sum of the angles must be 180. 90+90+90=270. Plus, If you tried to make a triangle with 3 right angles, you would end up with an incomplete rectangle


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Why can't the angles of a right angled triangle be the same?

As you probably know, a right angle triangle has to have a right angle (only can have one). A right angle is 90 degrees. All the triangles' angles add up to total of 180 degrees and only 180 degrees. 180- 90 is 90. If you have two right angles then that's a rectangle (a square is a rectangle). If you do 90 * 3 that equals 270 degrees. 270 is way greater than 180.


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Should be 270 degrees. Supplementary angles add up to 180 Complimentary add up to 90. 180 + 90 = 270


What is an angle over 270 degrees?

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The sum of all the angles making up any triangle is 270 degrees?

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No right triangle is equiangular?

a triangle's has 3 angles and they all always add up to 180. for a triangle to have all angles be the same each angle must be 60 degrees. if one of them were 90 degrees, then the other 2 angles would have to be 90 degrees in order to keep it equiangular. if you add up these three angles, you will get 270 degrees. this is impossible. no right triangles can be equiangular


How many sides does the triangle add up to?

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