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If the area of a regular hexagon is 259.807 how do i find the length of each side, and the apothem? thanks if you can help |
Hi Nick,
Look at what Stephen did in response to a question about the area of a hexagon. In her answer a is the side length. As she says you can use Pythagoras theorem to find the height h of the triangle in terms of a. (Actually h is the apothem.) Once you have h in terms of a then
259.807 = 3a
h
and you can solve for a.
Penny
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