Homework Help: geometry

Posted by Lian on Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 5:50am.

The corners of the square, 2m. sides, are cut off to form a regular octagon. What is the length of the side of the resulting octagon?

geometry - drwls, Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 6:23am
Let the side length be a.

a + 2*a*(sqrt2)/2 = 2
a = 2/(2.414) = 0.8285 m

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