I am a geometric shape with three interior angles. If you double the size of each angle, their total sum equals the sum of interior angles in a four-sided polygon. What shape am I?
Triangle
The angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees. Doubling them yields 360 degrees, which is the sum of angles in a quadrilateral.
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