Find the area of a regular nonagon with a side length of 9 and an apothem of 16.

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nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

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nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

ab is any side of the nonagon, find the area of the right triangle above. Multiply it by 2 to get the area of the triangle oab. Now you have 1/9 th of the total area.

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

I'm sorry make that 4.5 instead of 3.

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

so what would i do

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

what do you think is the ratio of the area of the right triangle above to the area of the nonagon?

anonymous · Answer

not sure

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

wait a min... the question seems wrong

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

the length of the apothem doesn't agree with the side.. for a regular n-gon, there is a direct relation between the length of a side and the length of the apothem. They aren't independent. This won't form a regular nonagon.

anonymous · Answer

would this be 649

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

^what's this?

anonymous · Answer

one of the answrefrs

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

No like I said, the question doesn't make sense. There exists no regular nonagon with side 9 and apothem 16.

anonymous · Answer

so what do i do i need to answer this :/

anonymous · Answer

@nipunmalhotra93

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

Well... the question is wrong... soo.. are there any options?

nipunmalhotra93 · Answer

648 could be an answer.... "if this question made sense" that is...