A hexagon cannot have 5 sides. "Hex", when you are talking about numbers, means six. Hexagon means six-sided polygon(shape). A polygon with 5 sides is called a pentagon.
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Its a heptagon. A HEXAgon is 6 sided. A pentagon is 5 sided.
3 - triangle 4 - quadrilateral 5 - pentagon 6 - hexagon 7 - heptagon / septagon 8 - octagon 9 - nonagon 10 - decagon 11 - hendecagon 12 - dodecagon
If the sides are all equal, and opposite sides are parallel, then the angles are all equal (72º) and it is a 'regular hexagon'. A six sided plane figure is called a hexagon, as "hex" means "six."
In 2 dimensions, a regular 5 sided figure is a pentagon. In 3 dimensions, there is no regular sided 5 sided figure. The tetrahedron is a regular 4 sided figure and a cube is a regular 6 sided figure.
A pentagon has 5 sides and an hexagon has 6 sides