is there any 7 sided polygon? if its there so what is the name of the polygon?
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HEPTAGON...............
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Properties of Polygons
See also: Calculating Area
This page examines the properties of two-dimensional or ‘plane’ polygons. A polygon is any shape made up of straight lines that can be drawn on a flat surface, like a piece of paper. Such shapes include squares, rectangles, triangles and pentagons but not circles or any other shape that includes a curve.
Understanding shapes is important in mathematics. You will certainly be required to learn about shapes at school but understanding the properties of shapes has many practical applications in professional and real-life situations too.
Many professionals need to understand the properties of shapes, including engineers, architects, artists, real-estate agents, farmers and construction workers.
When working with polygons the main properties which are important are:
The number of sides of the shape.
The angles between the sides of the shape.
The length of the sides of the shape.
Number of Sides
Polygons are usually defined by the number of sides that they have.
Three-Sided Polygons: Triangles
A three-sided polygon is a triangle. There are several different types of triangle (see diagram), including:
Equilateral – all the sides are equal lengths, and all the internal angles are 60°.
Isosceles – has two equal sides, with the third one a different length. Two of the internal angles are equal.
Scalene – all three sides, and all three internal angles, are different.
Triangles can also be described in terms of their internal angles (see our page on Angles for more about naming angles). The internal angles of a triangle always add up to 180°.
A triangle with only acute internal angles is called an acute (or acute-angled) triangle. One with one obtuse angle and two acute angles is called obtuse (obtuse-angled), and one with a right angle is known as right-angled.
Each of these will also be either equilateral, isosceles or scalene.
Four-Sided Polygons - Quadrilaterals
Four-sided polygons are usually referred to as quadrilaterals, quadrangles or sometimes tetragons. In geometry the term quadrilateral is commonly used. The term quadrangle is often used to describe a rectangular enclosed outdoor space, for example ‘the freshers assembled in the college quadrangle’. The term tetragon is consistent with polygon, pentagon etc. You may come across it occasionally, but it is not commonly used in practice.
The family of quadrilaterals includes the square, rectangle, rhombus and other parallelograms, trapezium/trapezoid and kite.
The internal angles of all quadrilaterals add up to 360°.
Square: Four sides of equal length, four internal right angles.
Rectangle: Four internal right angles, opposite sides of equal length.
Parallelogram: Opposite sides are parallel, opposite sides are equal in length, opposite angles are equal.
Rhombus: A special type of parallelogram in which all four sides are the same length, like a square that has been squashed sideways.
Trapezium (or trapezoid): Two sides are parallel, but the other two sides are not. Side lengths and angles are not equal.
Isosceles Trapezium (or trapezoid): Two sides are parallel and base angles are equal, meaning that non-parallel sides are also equal in length.
Kite: Two pairs of adjacent sides are of equal length; the shape has an axis of symmetry.
Irregular Quadrilateral: a four-sided shape where no sides are equal in length and no internal angles are the same. All internal angles still add up to 360°, as with all other regular quadrilaterals.
More than Four Sides
A five-sided shape is called a pentagon.
A six-sided shape is a hexagon, a seven-sided shape a heptagon, while an octagon has eight sides…
Polygon Names
The names of polygons are derived from the prefixes of ancient Greek numbers. The Greek numerical prefix occurs in many names of everyday objects and concepts. These can sometimes be useful in helping you remember how many sides a polygon has.
Angles Between Sides
The angles between the sides of shapes are important when defining and working with polygons. See our page on Angles for more about how to measure angles.
There is a useful formula for finding out the total (or sum) of internal angles for any polygon, that is:
(number of sides - 2) × 180°
Example:
For a pentagon (a five-sided shape) the calculation would be:
5 - 2 = 3
3 × 180 = 540°.
The sum of internal angles for any (not complex) pentagon is 540°.
Furthermore, if the shape is a regular polygon (all angles and length of sides are equal) then you can simply divide the sum of the internal angles by the number of sides to find each internal angle.
540 ÷ 5 = 108°.
In the example above, two lengths are missing.
The missing horizontal length can be calculated. Take the shorter horizontal known length from the longer horizontal known length.
9m - 5.5m = 3.5m.
The same principle can be used to work out the missing vertical length. That is:
3m - 1m = 2m.