Question

A regular pentagon is shown. A regular pentagon has side lengths of 9.4 centimeters and a radius of 8 centimeters. What is the length of the apothem, rounded to the nearest tenth?

Answer 1

Answer:

6.5 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the length of the apothem is shown below:

Given that

The side length is 9.4 centimeters

And, the radius is 8 centimeters

Now based on the above information

As per the attached figure  

AB = 8 cm

BC = 9.4 ÷ 2 = 4.7 cm

Now apply the pythagoras theorem

AB^2 = BC^2 + AC^2

8^2 = 4.7^2 + AC^2

AC^2 = 41.91

AC = 6.47 cm

= 6.5 cm