Why did merchants create joint-stock companies and use cottage industries? five sententces

to raise money for long-distance trade, to produce cheap goods in large quantities.

The answer to this question is that the fee's were not being met at their standards! No one could pay off their debt. So if you built a new factory you had to pay off the fee's. And we all know how cotton was picked before eli whitney created the cotton gin!

Use the formula: (n-2)×180, where n is the number of sides(18-2)×180= 28800, now this is the full exterior angle of 18-gon so you divide it by 18.28800÷18=160