Question

Que How does your tessellation with triangles relate to hexagons and tessellating the plane? Type your response in the space below:

Answer 1

For a regular tessellation, the shapes can be duplicated infinitely to fill a plane such that there is no gap. The only shapes that can form regular tessellations are equilateral traingle(all sides are equal. This means that it can be turned to any side and it would remain the same), square and regular hexagon. Looking at the given options, we have

Shape Tessellate?

Octagon No

Hexagon Yes

Pentagon No

Square Yes

Triangle No(unless it is specified that it is an equilateral triangle)