The area of a rectangular hexagon is 38cm^2. what is the area of a regular hexagon with sides four times as long?

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mathstudent55 · Answer

What's a rectangular hexagon?

anonymous · Answer

a normal hexagon ?? i guess haha

mathstudent55 · Answer

You mean "regular"?

mathstudent55 · Answer

Look at this:

Here you see a segment of length 1 unit on the left side.
On the right side you see a segment of length 2 units.
When you double the length of a segment, obviously its length becomes twice as large.
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mathstudent55 · Answer

What would happen if these segments were sides of squares. What would happen to the area of the square?

mathstudent55 · Answer

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mathstudent55 · Answer

Notice the squares above. When the side length is doubled, the area is not doubled. The area becomes 4 times what it was.

mathstudent55 · Answer

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