Question

Some one help i'm stuck!

Answer 1

What is the area of the regular hexagon? whose side is 8 and apothen is 5, can you help?

Answer 2

A good resource is Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon

Area (regular hexagon) = [3 * sq root(3) / 2] * side²
Area (regular hexagon) = 2.5980762114 * 8²
Area (regular hexagon) = 2.5980762114 * 64
Area (regular hexagon) = 166.2768775266

A good polygon calculator can be found at:
http://www.1728.org/polygon.htm

Notice the apothem measurement is not needed.