Question

What does the prefix ‘poly’ in the word polygon denote?
a) Huge
b) Small
c) Many
d) Single

Answer 1

Hint: The word polygon means something that is of many – angles. And prefixes are word, letter, or number placed before another word.

Complete answer :
Let us look into the fact how the name polygon originated?
Well, the word polygon comes from the Greeks, like most terms in geometry, which they invented. It simply means many (poly) angles (gon).
So, what can we infer from the above explanation?
We can infer that the word – poly denotes the meaning – many, which would be option – ‘c’ in the above given options.

Now, why are the other options invalid? Let us look into there meaning and find out why they are not the correct solution –
>Huge – means something (or sometimes – someone) that is extremely large or enormous.
For e.g. he is a huge guy.
>Small – means something (or someone) that is of a size less than normal pr something that is insignificant. For e.g. the room was so small.
>Many – means a large number of something or someone.
For e.g. many people agreed to play the game. (This is the correct answer).
>Single – means only one. For e.g. a single red rose.
So, by the above explanation you can see why we do not consider the other options. The correct one is option – ‘c’.

Hence option ‘c’ is the correct answer.

Note: Polygon is made up of two words - poly and gon. Poly is something that is numerous and gon means angle. Basically is used in mathematics. Knowing this fact try to eliminate the options that hold no similarity to the word poly.