Regular polygons , and lie on a plane. Given that , compute the number of possible values of .
Solution
First, place . We then note that has two orientations, both of which have on . Next, we note that for any given orientation of , the two orientations of have symmetric to line . Thus, for any given orientation of , we have that is the same in both orientations of , which gives a total of 2 possible values for .
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