standard_description: Represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, and conjugation of complex numbers geometrically on the complex plane; use properties of this representation for computation. For example, (-1 + Ö3i)^(3) = 8 because (-1 + Ö3i) has modulus 2 and argument 120°.
problem_activity: Task
Lisa makes an octagon by successively folding a square piece of paper as follows.  First, she folds the square in half vertically and horizontally and also along both diagonals leaving these creases:
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Next, Lisa makes four more folds, identifying each pair of adjacent lines of symmetry for the square used for the folds in the first step:
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Finally Lisa folds the four corners of her shape along the red creases marked below:
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Explain why the shape Lisa has made is a regular octagon.


aligns: no