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OpenStudy (shaleiah):

@Brill

OpenStudy (shaleiah):

I have to find the area of the regular polygon.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

If it told you area is 1/2*apothem*perimeter, what could you do with that?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Or more rather how would you find the perimeter?

OpenStudy (shaleiah):

adding up all the sides

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So how could you get one of the sides, because it doesn't give you any sides right now, only the apothem.

OpenStudy (shaleiah):

The apothem is equivalent to the radius, right?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Not necessarily, because this isnt a circle An apothem is something that drops from the center to form a right angle with a side

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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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