Squared off II

Geometry Level 2

The figure shows a regular hexagon with side lengths of 6 6 and a circle inscribed in it. Find the area of the green region.


The answer is 8.7077.

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Chew-Seong Cheong
Jul 16, 2020

The regular hexagon is made up of six equilateral triangles wit side lengths of 6 6 . Therefore the area of the hexagon is A h = 6 × 1 2 × 6 × 6 sin 6 0 = 54 3 A_h = 6 \times \frac 12 \times 6 \times 6 \sin 60^\circ = 54\sqrt 3 . We note that the radius of the circle is 6 sin 6 0 = 3 3 6 \sin 60^\circ = 3 \sqrt 3 and the area of the circle is A O = 27 π A_O = 27 \pi . Therefor the area of the green area is A g = A h A O = 54 3 27 π 8.71 A_g = A_h-A_O = 54\sqrt 3 - 27 \pi \approx \boxed{8.71} .

@I Love Brilliant , for decimal answer, the system automatically takes three significant figures as the standard. However precise you set your answer the system will only take in three significant accuracy. For higher accuracy, you can set you answer to be integer. For example, If the area of the green region is A A . Submot 10000 A \lfloor 10000A \rfloor .

Chew-Seong Cheong - 11 months ago

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oh. sorr if you got that wrong because of me :(

I Love Brilliant - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

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No, I didn't get it wrong. I was just saying it is pointless for t=you to set decimal answer more accurate than 3 significant figures.

Chew-Seong Cheong - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Why did I subtract 27π from 72√3

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 1 week ago

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I don't know why you did that.

Chew-Seong Cheong - 10 months, 1 week ago

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