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Can someone help me on one of these questions? (Area of Regular Polygons)

Can someone help me on one of these questions? (Area of Regular Polygons)-example-1

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Area = (a x p)/2, where a is the length of the apothem and p is the perimeter of the polygon.

Calculate the perimeter. The perimeter is the combined length of the outline of any two-dimensional figure. For a regular polygon, it can be calculated by multiplying the length of one side by the number of sides (n).

Determine the apothem. The apothem of a regular polygon is the shortest distance from the center point to one of the sides, creating a right angle. This is a little trickier to calculate than the perimeter.

The formula for calculating the length of the apothem is this: the length of the side (s) divided by 2 times the tangent (tan) of 180 degrees divided by the number of sides (n).

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