SOLUTION: How would you find the area of a regular octagon whose side length is 4.7 in. and the apothem is 6.5 in. please help
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Question 207079: How would you find the area of a regular octagon whose side length is 4.7 in. and the apothem is 6.5 in. please help
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The area of a regular polygon is given by:
where 
is the number of sides, 
is the measure of one side, and 
is the measure of the apothem (i.e., the radius of the inscribed circle).
Hint: An octagon has 8 sides.
John
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