Homework Help: geometry

Posted by kira on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 6:38pm.

the lengths [in inches] of two sides of a regular pentagon are represented by the expression 5x-27 and 2x-6 . fined the length of a sied of the pentagon.

geometry - MathMate, Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 12:47am
A regular pentagon has all sides of equal length, thus we set up
5x-27=2x-6
Solve for x and substitute in 5x-27 to find one side.

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