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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by hexagons The favorite shade of

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wizards and sorcerers everywhere All right kion Kion wants to

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compute the area of the regular hexagon shown below Given

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that line a c is equal in length The line

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cd and it may be is the center of the

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hex A gone she plans to use the formula area

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equals blank times line a c times line c b

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all right so what's this question asking Well once it's

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fill in a blank to complete a formula of some

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kind The formula also includes lines a c and c

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b which are the two legs of the triangle So

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looks like we're trying to find the area of the

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triangle and then can can can just multiply that by

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twelve Get the area of the entire shape they want

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Well all right The area of a right triangle is

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one half base times height So the area of triangle

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abc this thing right here is one half times fly

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Macey time's Fine B c but we have twelve of

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these suckers So the area of our hexagon will be

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twelve times all that stuff Well if we're taken twelve

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times a half that gives us six And you know

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the whole banker's doesn't think wait there we go by

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dropping a six into the blank this formula will give

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us the area of the hex a gun and we 00:01:23.777 --> [endTime] are theon dion with this problem Whoa

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