@Brill
I have to find the area of the regular polygon.
If it told you area is 1/2*apothem*perimeter, what could you do with that?
Or more rather how would you find the perimeter?
adding up all the sides
So how could you get one of the sides, because it doesn't give you any sides right now, only the apothem.
The apothem is equivalent to the radius, right?
Not necessarily, because this isnt a circle An apothem is something that drops from the center to form a right angle with a side
Right now that I told you that it forms a right triangle, how could you use that information to create a triangle that could give the side?
Here let me give you a hint because I have to go soon 1) How many degrees in the interior angles of a hexagon? 2) How many degrees do ONE of the interior angles have? 3) This is a triangle you can create from ONE of the side using the apothem|dw:1453343992333:dw| 4) Doesn't c split the interior angle in half? 5) Isn't d just 1/2 the lenght of that side?
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