SOLUTION: A regular hexagon has sides of length 8cm.find the perpendiculas distance between two opposite faces.

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Question 1143043: A regular hexagon has sides of length 8cm.find the perpendiculas distance between two opposite faces.
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A regular hexagon has sides of length 8 cm. find the perpendicular distance between two opposite highlight%28cross%28faces%29%29 sides.
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It is two times the height of the equilateral triangle with the side length of a = 8 cm.


The height in this case is  h = %28a%2Asqrt%283%29%29%2F2 = %288%2Asqrt%283%29%29%2F2.


Hence, the value under the question is  8%2Asqrt%283%29 = 13.856 cm (approximately).