SOLUTION: how i find the area of the regular hexagan

Question 262298: how i find the area of the regular hexagan
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20083) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


If you are given the regular hexagon:



Draw in all the "spokes":

 

All 6 triangles are congruent equilateral triangles.
Find the area of just the bottom triangle, the green one,
by calculating its height, the red line, by the Pythagorean 
theorem.

 

Then multiply the area of that one triangle by 6,
and you'll have the area of the whole regular hexagon.

Edwin

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