Sophia was asked to find the original dimension of a reduced hexagon. A smaller hexagon has a top side length of 1.2 inches and
bottom side length of x inches. A larger hexagon has a top side length of 7.2 inches and bottom side length of 9 inches. Sophia found that the enlarged hexagon’s dimensions were just 6 more than the original hexagon, thus x = 3. What was Sophia’s error? Sophia should have found the number the dimensions were multiplied by. Sophia should have divided 9 and 6 . Sophia should have set up a proportion to solve for x. Sophia should have multiplied 7.2 and 1.2. Sophia is correct and did not make an error.
draw what you have 1.2 inches draw that and your other side the side x would be you left over number. so if you look at a hexagon they have about the same size or search a picture of a hexagon most are like a square the have even sides.
angle 1 plus angle 2 equals 90 because they are complementary. combining like terms gives you 8x + 18 = 90. then you get 8x = 72, which means that x equals 9
