SOLUTION: How would you find the area of a regular octagon whose side length is 4.7 in. and the apothem is 6.5 in. please help

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Question 207079: How would you find the area of a regular octagon whose side length is 4.7 in. and the apothem is 6.5 in. please help
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The area of a regular polygon is given by:



where is the number of sides, is the measure of one side, and is the measure of the apothem (i.e., the radius of the inscribed circle).

Hint: An octagon has 8 sides.


John