Problem:
A polygon is called convex if all its interior angles have measure strictly less than . What is the maximum number of angles of measure less than that a convex polygon with 2016 sides can have?
Problem:
A polygon is called convex if all its interior angles have measure strictly less than . What is the maximum number of angles of measure less than that a convex polygon with 2016 sides can have?
Pick one
Solution:
The answer is (A). Consider a convex polygon with 2016 sides, and suppose it has exactly angles of measure less than ; the sum of its interior angles equals . At the same time, since each of the remaining angles has measure less than , this sum is strictly less than . We thus obtain the inequality
that is, , from which .
On the other hand, it is not difficult to see that there exists a polygon with 11 angles of measure and 2005 angles of measure .