carousel is being designed for the spring Festival. The horses will be mounted to a regular hexagon and the hexagon is then placed on a revolving circle so that each vertex of the hexagon lies on the circle as demonstrated below. If the circle has a radius of 10 feet, how long is each side of the hexagon?

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Chapter8: Areas Of Polygons And Circles
Section8.3: Regular Polygons And Area
Problem 7E: For a regular hexagon, the length of the apothem is 10 cm. Find the length of the radius for the...
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A carousel is being designed for the spring Festival. The horses will be mounted to a regular hexagon and the hexagon is then placed on a revolving circle so that each vertex of the hexagon lies on the circle as demonstrated below. If the circle has a radius of 10 feet, how long is each side of the hexagon?

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