Question

What is the area of the shaded region below? Assume the hexagon is regular. Use your calculator and round your final answer to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

Find the area of the hexagon.

Answer 2

\(\sf A = \dfrac{6ar}{2}\)

Where 'a' is the side length and 'r' is the apothem length.

Answer 3

\[SO? THAT WOULD BE a=\frac{ 1 }{ 2 }(6 \times20)(17.32)\]

Answer 4

So we have:

\(\sf A = \dfrac{6(20)(17.32)}{2}\)

Answer 5

No, that's a different formula for the heptagon.

Answer 6

ohhh

Answer 7

What do you get?

Answer 8

hold up

Answer 9

how do i solve that hahah?

Answer 10

Multiply 6 * 20 * 17.32 then divide by 2.

Answer 11

oh....

Answer 12

1039.2

Answer 13

Yes, now find the area of the rectangle and subtract it form that.

A = lw

A = (20)(16)

Answer 14

719.2

Answer 15

Correct, that's our answer.