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A regular pentagon with three line segments. What’s the angle α?

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Solution

The angle α is 90°.

Solution by Craftman.

Once you have established the measures above using similar triangles, you can show that 2/(4φ2/(2φ+1)) exactly equals cos(36). But this implies that α must be right.

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