Nadia is investigating rotations about the center of regular polygons that carry the regular polygon onto itself. She claims that there are rotations about the center that will carry both a regular hexagon and a regular nonagon (9-sided polygon) onto itself. Determine whether each angle of rotation below can be used to support Nadia's claim. Select Yes or No for each angle of rotation

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Answer:

[tex]\theta_1 \ n\ \theta_2 = 120, 240[/tex]

Step-by-step explanation:

The question is incomplete, as the angles of rotation are not stated.

However, I will list the angles less than 360 degrees that will carry the hexagon and the nonagon onto itself

We have:

[tex]Nonagon = 9\ sides[/tex]

[tex]Hexagon = 6\ sides[/tex]

Divide 360 degrees by the number of sides in each angle, then find the multiples.

Nonagon

[tex]\theta = \frac{360}{9} =40[/tex]

List the multiples of 40

[tex]\theta_1 = 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 240, 280, 320[/tex]

Hexagon

[tex]\theta = \frac{360}{6} =60[/tex]

List the multiples of 60

[tex]\theta_2 = 60, 120, 180, 240, 300[/tex]

List out the common angles

[tex]\theta_1 = 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 240, 280, 320[/tex]

[tex]\theta_2 = 60, 120, 180, 240, 300[/tex]

[tex]\theta_1 \ n\ \theta_2 = 120, 240[/tex]

This means that, only a rotation of [tex]120, 240[/tex] will lift both shapes onto themselves, when applied to both shapes.

The other angles will only work on one of the shapes, but not both at the same time.