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Example Question #13 : Act Math
The perimeter of a regular pentagon is . What is the length of one side?
A problem like this is very easy. A regular pentagon just looks like:
All of its sides are equal. Therefore, you know that , where is the length of one side. Solving for , you get .
Example Question #15 : Act Math
If the perimeter of a given regular pentagon is . What is the length of one side of this regular pentagon in inches?
Use the formula for perimeter to solve for the side length of the regular pentagon:
Where is the perimeter and is the length of a side.
In this case:
Example Question #11 : Plane Geometry
Find the length of each side for regular pentagon with a perimeter of .
Use the formula for perimeter to solve for the side length:
Example Question #21 : Plane Geometry
Find the length of one side for a regular pentagon with a perimeter of .
Use the formula for perimeter to solve for the side length:
Example Question #22 : Plane Geometry
Find the length of each side for a regular pentagon with a perimeter of .
Use the formula for perimeter to solve for the side length:
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