JP uses a paperweight shaped like a pyramid with a regular hexagon for a base. The side length of the regular hexagon is one inch. The altitude of the pyramid is 2 inches. What is the lateral surface area of this pyramid? Round your answers to the nearest hundredth.

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anonymous · Answer

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directrix · Answer

So, what have you done on this so far?

directrix · Answer

@sakigirl

anonymous · Answer

I got 6

anonymous · Answer

I think I'm going nowhere
@Directrix

directrix · Answer

Did you compute the slant height? That is going to be the major part of cranking out the answer.

directrix · Answer

The altitude comes down and intersects the hexagaonal base at its center. So , we will have to work on the floor of the pyramid to get one leg of a right triangle whose other leg is the height and whose hypotenuse is the slant height.

directrix · Answer

Agree?
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