A regular pentagon is created using the bases of five congruent isosceles triangles, joined at a common vertex. The total number of degrees in the center is 360°. If all five vertex angles meeting at the center are congruent, what is the measure of a base angle of one of the triangles?

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If all five vertex angles meeting at the center of a regular pentagon are congruent, then each vertex angle of triangle has measure

[tex] \dfrac{360^{\circ}}{5} =72^{\circ}. [/tex]

As known the sum of the measures of three triangle angles is 180° and base angles of isosceles triangle are congruent, then the measure of a base angle of one of the triangles is

[tex] \dfrac{180^{\circ}-72^{\circ}}{2} =\dfrac{108^{\circ}}{2}=54^{\circ} [/tex].

Answer: [tex] 54^{\circ} [/tex].

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54 degrees

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