We can employ the two skills we’ve been working on this week — constructing congruent segments and constructing congruent angles — to create a copy of any polygon.
Use a straight edge to draw any polygon. Â Here’s an irregular hexagon drawn for me by a helpful eighth-grader and his ruler:
To copy your polygon, begin with any side and construct a congruent segment. Â Choose either angle from that side and construct a congruent angle. Â Continue until you have copied all of the sides and angles of your polygon!
Copy Any Polygon