One of your classmates observed that a rectangle was made of four lines and a pentagon by five lines and wanted to know which shape would be obtained if the number of sides were increased to infinity. Which shape would this be?

Decagon

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Docagon

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Centagon

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Circle

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Solution

The correct option is D
Circle

As the number of sides increase to infinity, the polygon tends to become a circle.

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One of your classmates observed that a rectangle was made of four lines and a pentagon by five lines and wanted to know which shape would be obtained if the number of sides were increased to infinity. Which shape would this be?

The correct option is D Circle As the number of sides increase to infinity, the polygon tends to become a circle.

The correct option is D
Circle

As the number of sides increase to infinity, the polygon tends to become a circle.