Question

What is the area of a regular hexagon with side length of 40 cm?

Answer 1

if you split the hexagon into 6 equilateral triangles, and find the height of the triangles using Pythagoras Theorem, then the area is

`E = 6 * 1/2*(base) * (height) = 6*20*sqrt(40^2 - 20^2) = 120*34.64 = 4156.92cm^2`