SOLUTION: I'm totally lost. The question is "Show that the area of a regular n-gon with radius r is nr squared/2sin(360/n)

SOLUTION: I'm totally lost. The question is "Show that the area of a regular n-gon with radius r is nr squared/2sin(360/n)

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Question 948975: I'm totally lost. The question is "Show that the area of a regular n-gon with radius r is nr squared/2sin(360/n)
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hint: Draw the center of the n-gon and split into n congruent isosceles triangles. Find the area of one of those triangles and multiply by n.
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