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7 December

What is the obtuse angle in degrees between the minute and hour hands of a clock at 08:22?

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Tags: angles, clocks

1 December

Each interior angle of a regular triangle is 60°.
Each interior angle of a different regular polygon is 178°. How many sides does this polygon have?

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Is it equilateral?

In the diagram below, \(ABDC\) is a square. Angles \(ACE\) and \(BDE\) are both 75°.
Is triangle \(ABE\) equilateral? Why/why not?

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17 December

The number of degrees in one internal angle of a regular polygon with 360 sides.

Ticking clock

Is there a time of day when the hands of an analogue clock (one with a second hand that moves every second instead of moving continuously) will all be 120° apart?

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Tags: angles, time

Dodexagon

In the diagram, B, A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L are the vertices of a regular dodecagon and B, A, M, N, O and P are the vertices of a regular hexagon.
Show that A, M and E lie on a straight line.

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Three squares

Source: Numberphile
The diagram shows three squares with diagonals drawn on and three angles labelled.
What is the value of \(\alpha+\beta+\gamma\)?

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