How to find the area of a pentagon

The formula for the area of of a pentagon is

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Plugging in our values, we get:

The formula for the area of of a pentagon is:

Plugging in our values, we get:

The area of a regular polygon can be solved using the following equation: .

To find the perimeterof the pentagon, we multiply the side length by five.

The apothem of a regular polygon ( = number of sides; = side length) is given by the equation below.

Pluggin in our numbers, we can solve for the apothem.

Finally, we can solve for the area.