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Example Question #2 : Calculating The Length Of A Side Of A Polygon
The perimeter of a regular pentagon is three kilometers. Give its sidelength in meters.
One kilometer is equal to 1,000 meters, so two kilometers comprise 3,000 meters. A regular pentagon has five sides of equal length, so divide by 5 to get the sidelength: meters.
Example Question #5 : Calculating The Length Of A Side Of A Polygon
Six regular polygons each have perimeter one mile. The polygons are an equilateral triangle, a square, a pentagon, a hexagon, an octagon, and a decagon (ten-sided polygon). What is the mean of their sidelengths?
The sidelength of a regular polygon is the perimeter of one mile, or 5,280 feet, divided by the number of sides. Therefore, the sidelengths of the six shapes are:
Triangle:
Square:
Pentagon:
Hexagon:
Octagon:
Decagon:
The mean of the six sidelengths:
feet
Example Question #6 : Calculating The Length Of A Side Of A Polygon
If the shape is a regular hexagon with side length of and a perimeter of meters, what is the length of one side?
Perimeter is the total distance around a shape. Here we have a regular (all sides are equal) hexagon with side distance 2x+6. Multiplying this expression by 6 gives us our perimeter.
But we are not done yet. We need to plug this back in to get the side length
so 15 meters
Alternatively, we could divide 72 by 6 to get 12 meters.
Example Question #3 : Calculating The Length Of A Side Of A Polygon
A regular hexagon has perimeter . Which of the following is equal to the length of one side?
A hexagon has six sides of equal length, so divide the perimeter by 6, which is the product of 2 and 3:
Example Question #3 : Calculating The Length Of A Side Of A Polygon
A regular octagon has perimeter . Give the length of one of its sides.
A regular octagon has eight sides of equal length, so divide the perimeter by 8, or equivalently, :
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