A square has 360 degrees, if you measure the degrees on the outside,

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A square has a total of 360 degrees when measuring the internal angles. Each external angle of a square is calculated as 270 degrees, leading to a total of 1080 degrees when summed across all four angles. However, due to overlapping angles, the effective measurement results in 720 degrees after accounting for the cancellation of overlapping 90-degree angles. This discussion clarifies the concept of angle cancellation in geometric measurements.

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A square has 360 degrees, if you measure the degrees on the outside, what degree do you get?
 
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Each external angle of a square is 270 degrees. So, the total is 270*4 = 1080 degrees.
 
thats what i came to as well, however, the outside degrees overlap each other... so sets of 90 degrees would be canceled out... in cancelling out the overlaps, i come to 720... is that what you come to?
 
Can u explain what u mean by "angles cancel up" ? and how you came up with the 720 result ?
Thanks !
 

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