Question

the perimeter of a regular pentagon is 31 cm. find the length of each side.

Answer 1

how many sides are there in a pentagon?
# of sides divided by 31...
I THINK

Answer 2

perhaps the other way around

31 divided by the number of sides in a pentagon

Answer 3

To put it simply...find out how many times 5 will go into 31 and that will be the length of each side.

Answer 4

let \(x\) be the length of one side. Since perimeter is the length of all sides, and a pentagon has 4 sides, you would get \[31=5x\]now just solve for x