Question

What is the general form of naming a polygon?

(a) Polygon

(b) Hexagon

(c) n-gon (where n represents number of sides in a polygon)

(d) Pentagon

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This is a very interesting question from Classification of Polygons in portion Quadrilaterals of Mathematics – Class 8

Answer 1

Right answer is (c) n-gon (where n represents number of sides in a polygon)

To explain: One can find this by a small trick, a student should learn to break the word. For example Hexagon: Hexa+Gon  now as we know that hexa is six. Similarly, if a polygon has ‘n’ sides then the polygon would be named as n-gon.