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Example Question #1 : Pentagons
The perimeter of a regular pentagon is 40 units. What is the area of the pentagon?
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Explanation:
The formula for the area of a regular pentagon is given by the equation:
where a is represented by the length of one side. Let's begin by finding the side length of the regular pentagon. If the perimeter is 40, then we can divide by 5 (the number of sides) to find a side length of 8.
If we plug in 8 into the equation:
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