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TSI Math: Finding the Area of a Regular Polygon 17 Views


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A regular polygon has apothem lengths of 9, side lengths of 3, and 12 sides. What is the area for this shape?


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Simon shmoop er's Here we go A regular polygon has

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a possum Lengths of nine side lengths of three and

00:10

twelve sides what's the area for this shape Well breaking

00:18

the mold might be what makes some math famous But

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when it comes to regular polygons you do not want

00:25

to break the mold In fact regular polygons give the

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side eye to anything that's not regular Lucky for us

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we're working with a regular polygon because it means that

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we confined the area using our trusty area of a

00:36

regular polygon formula And of course our brilliant brains So

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let's see the formula for the area of a regular

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polygon is a equals one half and s are where

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n is the number of sides ass equals the side

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length and our equals the possum length Well we've been

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given the values of all these variables Eso all we

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have to do is substitute them into the formula do

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some math and and high five each other Yeah So

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let's All right so we got a equals one half

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and sa and that's one half times twelve times through

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unit times nine units and altogether gets us one hundred

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sixty two square units And easy spot for error is

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forgetting to divide by half here like a did or

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casually multiplying by two instead of dividing by it like

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you see But anyway that's it The answer is b 00:01:18.718 --> [endTime] one sixty two square units and we are sure

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