A regular hexagon has a side length of 2 1/4 feet. What is its perimeter?

Question

1938 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-05-30T21:21:25

Perimeter = #13 1/2# feet

There are two important words in the information given.

It is a regular figure, which means all the sides and angles are equal.

It is a hexagon, which means there are 6 sides.

So, there are 6 sides, each of length #2 1/4# feet.

Simply multiply to find the perimeter. (the sum of all the sides)

#P = 6 xx 2 1/4#

#6 xx 9/4 = cancel6^3 xx 9/cancel4^2 = 27/2#

Perimeter = #13 1/2# feet