document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1111171>Question 1111171</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> If the long width of a hexagon is 30m, what is the total area?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I've tried working it out myself by I was taught to work it out from the short width and haven't been able to find a method for calculating it using the long width instead. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "I've tried working it out myself by I was taught to work it out from the short width and haven't been able to find a method for calculating it using the long width instead.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "By \"long width\" you  probably mean across the vertices.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "that's the radius, and or a hexagon it is the side length, s.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For any regular polygon with n sides of length s,<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You could find the \"short width,\" that's across the flats, and called the apothem using the fact that a hexagon is 6 equilateral triangles.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I'm not in favor of memorizing formulas in general.  Use the fact that it's 6 triangles (or another # for a different polygon).\r<BR>\n" );
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