SOLUTION: A regular pentagon is circumscribed by a circle of radius 5 cm, find the side of this pentagon (1dp)

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Question 1093913: A regular pentagon is circumscribed by a circle of radius 5 cm, find the side of this pentagon (1dp)
Answer by ikleyn(52788)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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This problem is solved in the lesson
    - The side length of a regular polygon via the radius of the circumscribed circle
in this site (Problem 1).


Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook on Geometry
    GEOMETRY - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK
in this site.

The referred lesson is the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Properties of polygons".




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