It's easy to show by the formula for the sum of the angles that each interior angle is 120°, whose supplement is 60°. Now we draw in some green lines to enclose the hexagon in a rectangle. We have added four 30°-60°-90° right triangles to the hexagon. In a 30°-60°-90° right triangle the shorter leg is one-half of the hypotenuse. And the longer leg is the shorter leg times √3. Since we know all 4 hypotenuses, we can find the dimensions of the enclosing rectangle. The area of the big rectangle is (length)(width)= (9)(3√3) = 27√3 The area of each of the two larger 30°-60°-90° right triangles is (base)(height)/2 = (2)(2√3)/2 = 2√3 The area of both of them is 4√3 The area of each of the two smaller 30°-60°-90° right triangles is (base)(height)/2 = 1(√3)/2 = √3/2 The area of both of them is √3 We get the area of the hexagon by subtracting the areas of the 4 right triangles: 27√3 - 4√3 - √3 = 22√3 Edwin