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What is a line?
What is a circle?
What is a triangle?
What is a quadrilateral?
(Square, rectangle etc.)
What is a pentagon?
What is a hexagon?
What is an octagon?
Tricks with compasses and straightedge
Geometry:
using only compasses and straightedge
Make a dot and draw a circle round it.
Draw perpendiculars (diameters) through the central dot. (
How to draw perpendiculars?)
Draw a point half way between the centre and one side of a diameter.
Join that point to the top.
Centre your compasses at C and draw a circle with radius CB to cut the diameter at D.
Divide AD in half at E.
(How?)
OK be lazy, use a ruler.
Draw a perpendicular through E to meet the circle at F anf G. The two purple lines FH and HG are two sides of a pentogram.
Use your compasses set at width FH to make the three remaining sides.
How to draw a regular pentogram.