SOLUTION: Consider a square and a regular hexagon one side of the square is 3 feet longer than a side of the hexagon and the two figures have the same perimeter . What are the lengths of th

Question 1100955: Consider a square and a regular hexagon one side of the square is 3 feet longer than a side of the hexagon and the two figures have the same perimeter . What are the lengths of the sides of each figure?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The square has 4 sides, each of which is 3 feet longer than each of the 6 sides of the regular hexagon; and the perimeters of the two figures are equal.

So if x is the length of a side of the hexagon,

The side of the hexagon is x=6; so the side of the square is x+3 = 9.
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