Cute Geometry – Area of a Hexagon

Hello, everyone! Cute bunnies keep teaching us geometry! Last week our bunny told us about the area of the rectangle

There are very many geometric shapes around us and today I want to highlight the hexagons.

A hexagon is a polygon with 6 sides and 6 angles. There are 2 types of hexagons: Regular hexagon — when all angles of hexagon and all it’s sides are equal;  Irregular hexagon — when the sides and angles are not equal.

Interesting facts about the regular hexagons:
Honeycombs are in the shape of a regular hexagon;
Soap bubbles tend to form hexagons;
Some complex carbon molecules (such as graphite) have a hexagonal crystal lattice.
Giant hexagon is a atmospheric phenomenon on Saturn.

Now, look at the cute bunny below.

How to compute the area of the regular hexagon? Use following formula:

Where:

S — is the area of the hexagon;
—  is the side of the hexagon.

In case you want to know more about the hexagon in particular or geometry in general find a good geometry tutor on TutorZ.