Question

Apothem = (the answer is a sqaure root)

Answer 1

`√(20)`

Explanation:

To find the Apothem of a shape, we need to find how long the distance is from a vertex to the center of the shape.

We can see that they've already showed us how to do it: We need to find the length of the hypotenuse of the red triangle.

To do this, we can use the Pythagorean Theorem, which states that
`a^2 + b^2 = c^2`.

We know that a is going to be half of 4, which is 2. We also know that b is going to be 4, so we can substitute inside the equation.

`2^2 + 4^2 = c^2\\\\4 + 16 = c^2\\\\20=c^2\\\\c=√(20)`

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