what shape has 6 sides
The Answers community requires more information for this question. Please edit your question to include more context. What is it whose length you require: the hexagon, its side, its perimeter?
If this is a trick question, the answer is likely to be once because after that you no longer have a hexagon. If it is not a trick question, the answer is an infinite number of times.
You cannot - unless it is a regular hexagon. And there is nothing in the question to suggest that you can assume it is a regular hexagon.
No idea. What's a "hexaan"? If you mean "hexagon", see related question "How many many sides are in a hexagon?"
Neither a square nor a hexagon are rigid so the question is misguided. Any square can be "squashed" into a rhombus and a hexagon into an irregular hexagon. The only rigid polygon is a triangle.
The Answers community requires more information for this question. Please edit your question to include more context. It is not clear from the question what it is that is 12 inches long: the side of the hexagon or the hexagon itself.
The answer to the question is at the end of the question!
That is an easy question. A hexagon has 6 sides while an octagon has 8 sides. They are both different.
The question cannot be answered. A regular hexagon with sides of 10 inches would have apothems of 10/sqrt(2) = 7.071 inches. Therefore the hexagon cannot be regular. And, since the hexagon is irregular, there is not enough information to answer the question.
If it's a 'regular' hexagon, then it has three pairs of parallel lines. If the hexagon isn't 'regular', then it's not possible to answer the question with the information given in it.
The area of a hexagon with each side being 23ft is about 1,374.38ft2
I am not sure what you are asking. A hexagon doesn't actually have a formula. Do you mean a formula for the interior angles? or what? Please can you clarify your question.