Homework Help: geometry

Posted by shenica on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 12:49pm.

in order to find the area of a regular hexagon using the formula Area=1/2(nxs)(a)you must frist find the apothem whie vertical leg of a 30-60-90 triangle with the base of 3. Find the length of the apothem in the 30-60-90 triangle

geometry - Henry, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 6:49pm
tan30 = a/3,
a = 3tan30 = 1.732.

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