Problem: The measures of the interior angles of a convex polygon are in arithmetic progression. If the smallest angle is and the largest angle is , then the number of sides the polygon has is
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Solution:
Let be the number of sides the polygon has. The sum of the interior angles of a convex polygon with sides is , and the sum of terms of an arithmetic progression is times the sum of the first and last terms. Therefore
Solving this equation for yields .