Question

Louisa drew a polygon with six sides of equal length. If the perimeter of Louisa's polygon is 95.4 centimeters, how long is each side? Use an equation to solve

Answer 1

Answer:

15.9 centimeters

Step-by-step explanation:

the information we have is:

Perimeter: $P=95.4cm$

Number of sides of the polygon: $n=6$

since each side has equal length, we can use the following equation to find the measure of one side of the polygon, the equation for perimeter:

$P=nl$

where n is the number of sides and $l$ is the length of each side.

So we clear for $l$ and we get:

$l=\frac{P}{n}$

and subtituting the known values:

$l=\frac{95.4cm}{6}\\ l=15.9cm$

each side is 15.6 centimeters long