SOLUTION: The volume of a regular hexagonal prism of length 10cm, where the sides of the hexagon is 12cm

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Question 1106375: The volume of a regular hexagonal prism of length 10cm, where the sides of the hexagon is 12cm
Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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The regular hexagon base can be viewed as 6 equilateral triangles; the area of an equilateral triangle with side length s is %28s%5E2%2Asqrt%283%29%29%2F4. So you can use that to find the area of the base.

Then the volume of the prism is just the area of the base, multiplied by the height.