Practice Problems
Questions by Aunteek Naser1. A regular hexagon has a perimeter of 30. It is dilated so that each side length of the hexagon becomes 8. What is the area of the new hexagon?
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Answers by Aunteek Naser1. The perimeter of the new hexagon is (8*6) or 48. The scale factor is (48/30) or 1.6. The apothem of the old hexagon is 4√3. Using A = aP/2, we find that the area of the old hexagon, which is 60√3. Therefore, the new area is 60√3 *2.56, or 153.6√3 u^2.
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