document.write( "Question 766552: A regular pentagon has sides of 20 cm. an inner pentagon with sides of 10 cm is inside and concentric to the larger pentagon. What is the area inside the larger pentagon and outside the smaller pentagon? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #467053 by Edwin McCravy(20056) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Here is a different approach.  It's longer but it doesn't\r\n" );
document.write( "use the formula for the area of a regular polygon,\r\n" );
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document.write( "The following way only uses the interior angle formula,\r\n" );
document.write( "the tangent equation, and the area of a trapezoid (or \r\n" );
document.write( "trapezium) formula.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Each interior angle of an n-sided regular polygon is\r\n" );
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document.write( " =  = 108° \r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we draw in two vertical lines in red, which divide\r\n" );
document.write( "the 20cm side into 5cm, 10cm, and 5cm lengths:\r\n" );
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document.write( "In the right triangle, we find h from\r\n" );
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document.write( "tan(54°) = \r\n" );
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document.write( "h = 5·tan(54°)\r\n" );
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document.write( "Area of trapezoid =  = \r\n" );
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document.write( "Area of all 5 trapezoids =  = 516.1432202 cm²\r\n" );
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