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A regular hexagon has an area of 100 square centimeters. What is the length of one side?

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Konstantinos Michailidis

Nov 29, 2015

The regular hexagon consists of six equilateral triangles with side a.

Each triangle has an area of #E=1/4*sqrt3*a^2# hence the total is equal to 100

so

#100=6*(1/4*sqrt3*a^2)=>a=6.2cm#

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