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Geometry Level 3

A hexagon having all congruent interior angles and consecutive side of length 5 , 3 , 6 , 7 5,3,6,7 .

Find the length of its remaining sides?

3,2 9,1 6,5 1,8

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Srijan Singh
Aug 6, 2020

Here's my solution

. Hexagon named ABMCDE side lengths of BM =5, MC =3, CD =6, DE =7, EA =X,AB=Y. We need to find X and Y sum of all interior angles of hexagon is 720 degrees.
Then each interior angles would be 120 degrees. we know that the exterior angle +interior angle is 180 degrees . If we extend the lines you could see that how the figure looks like . The triangles are EQUILATERAL THOSE WHICH ARE DRAWN IN CORNER. If we look at the biggest triangle PQR is also an equilateral triangle. NOTE: PB=Y So,here the algebra comes that each side of a is 16. 16=X+Y+7 16=Y+5+3 hence,x=1 y=8

@Aryan Sanghi look at my solution

SRIJAN Singh - 10 months, 1 week ago

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Excellent solution. Upvoted. 👍

Aryan Sanghi - 10 months, 1 week ago

@Aryan Sanghi ,Thanks

SRIJAN Singh - 10 months, 1 week ago

Use vector algebra. Let a a and b b be the unknown lengths. Then

5 + 3 cos 60 ° + 6 cos 120 ° + 7 cos 180 ° + a cos 240 ° + b cos 300 ° = 0 5+3\cos 60\degree+6\cos 120\degree+7\cos 180\degree+a\cos 240\degree+b\cos 300\degree=0

a b = 7 \implies a-b=-7

3 sin 60 ° + 6 sin 120 ° + 7 sin 180 ° + a sin 240 ° + b sin 300 ° = 0 3\sin 60\degree+6\sin 120\degree+7\sin 180\degree+a\sin 240\degree+b\sin 300\degree=0

a + b = 9 \implies a+b=9

So, a = 1 2 ( 7 + 9 ) = 1 a=\dfrac 12(-7+9)=\boxed 1 ,

b = 1 2 ( 9 + 7 ) = 8 b=\dfrac 12(9+7)=\boxed 8 .

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