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A regular hexagon is shown.
A regular hexagon with a radius of 10 inches is shown.
What is the length of the apothem, rounded to the nearest inch? Recall that in a regular hexagon, the length of the radius is equal to the length of each side of the hexagon.
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A regular hexagon with a radius of 10 inches is shown.
What is the length of the apothem, rounded to the nearest inch? Recall that in a regular hexagon, the length of the radius is equal to the length of each side of the hexagon.
4 in.
5 in.
9 in.
11 in
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GPT-5 mini
A regular hexagon can be split into 6 equilateral triangles of side 10. The apothem is the height of one such triangle: 10·(√3/2) ≈ 8.66, which rounds to 9 in.
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