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This is how you find the area of a regular pentagon:
Break it into five isosceles triangles by drawing lines from the middle of it to each vertex. Then, draw a line connecting the middle to the midpoint of a side. You can call that line the apothem. The apothem should break up one of the triangles into two smaller congruent right triangles. You can know the degrees in the triangle by dividing the central angle of 360 by 10, (dividing it by 10 because your smallest triangle you're going to use is 1/10th of the whole pentagon) So now you know the unknown angle towards the top of the smallest triangle is 36, do the subtraction so the unknown angle towards the bottom is 54. Now trig it out! SOH-CAH-TOA shows that tan(54)=(a/s). A being the apothem and s being the side length of the smallest triangle, which is half a side length. Now that you know the lengths of the smallest triangle, find the area of that. That triangle is replicated 10 times in the pentagon, so multiply it by 10.
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How do you use the word pentagon in a sentence for math?
The boy had to find the area and perimeter of the pentagon.
Find the perimeter and area of a pentagon with side length 8 cm?
Area = 110.11 cm2
What is the area of a regular pentagon with a side length of ten units?
A regular pentagon has five (5) equilateral triangles within it. Find the area of each triangle (1/2bh where b is the base of the triangle or the length of a side of the pentagon, and h is the height of the triangle or the apothem of the pentagon) and multiply the area of the triangle times five (5).
What is the area of a 6 cm pentagon?
If 6 is the side of a regular pentagon, the area is 61.937
How do you find the area and perimeter of a pentagon?
Since the question does not say so, you may not assume that the pentagon is regular. One way to find the area is to select any point inside the pentagon and join it to each of the vertices. This will divide the pentagon into 5 triangles. You can then measure the sides of each triangle and thereby calculate its area. Then sum the areas of the triangles. You could also select one side in each triangle as the base and then draw and measure the perpendicular distance to the opposite vertex. That is another way to find the area of each triangle. There are other methods, too. To find the perimeter you will need to measure the length of each side of the pentagon and add these lengths together.
Will the area of a pentagon help you find the surface area of a pentagon?
Oh yes, it most definitely will. They're equal.
How do you use the word pentagon in a sentence for math?
The boy had to find the area and perimeter of the pentagon.
Find the perimeter and area of a pentagon with side length 8 cm?
Area = 110.11 cm2
A circle is inscribed in a regular pentagon whose sides are 12 cm. Find the area inside the pentagon and outside the circle?
124
What is the area of a regular pentagon with a side length of ten units?
A regular pentagon has five (5) equilateral triangles within it. Find the area of each triangle (1/2bh where b is the base of the triangle or the length of a side of the pentagon, and h is the height of the triangle or the apothem of the pentagon) and multiply the area of the triangle times five (5).
How do find the volume of a pentagon?
If you mean a pentagonal prism, then find the area of the pentagon 1st. Length of 1 side x 1.7, then multiply by the height of the prism. But I dont really know the regular Pentagon volume. sorry... hope you dont hate me for that.
What is the area of a 6 cm pentagon?
If 6 is the side of a regular pentagon, the area is 61.937
How do you find the surface area for a pentagon?
surface area= b x h actually no its 5(a)(s)+5(s)(h) s is side and h is height only problem i dont know what a is
How do you find the area and perimeter of a pentagon?
Since the question does not say so, you may not assume that the pentagon is regular. One way to find the area is to select any point inside the pentagon and join it to each of the vertices. This will divide the pentagon into 5 triangles. You can then measure the sides of each triangle and thereby calculate its area. Then sum the areas of the triangles. You could also select one side in each triangle as the base and then draw and measure the perpendicular distance to the opposite vertex. That is another way to find the area of each triangle. There are other methods, too. To find the perimeter you will need to measure the length of each side of the pentagon and add these lengths together.
What is the Equation for volume of a pentagon?
A pentagon is a 2-D shape. You can't find the volume of it unless it's 3-D. The formula for the area of a pentagon has something to do with the perimeter, the number of sides, the apothem, and the number 2.
How do you find the base area of a pentagonal pyramid?
Given only the information in the question, there is no option but to measure the pentagon at the base and calculate its area.
What is area of pentagon?
That depends on the size of the pentagon, and whether it is regular or not. In general, you can divide the pentagon into three triangles, and calculate the area of each triangle separately.
