Stage: 5 Challenge Level: 
Can you find in the diagram a right angled triangle with angle ${\pi \over n}$?
Manipulating algebraic expressions/formulae. Maths in STEM. Circles. STEM - rethink needed. Generalising. engineering. Sine. Mathematical modelling. Individual. physics.
Published January 2000.
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