1998 AHSME Problems/Problem 15
Problem
A regular hexagon and an equilateral triangle have equal areas. What is the ratio of the length of a side of the triangle to the length of a side of the hexagon?
Solution
since a regular hexagon is just six equilateral triangles.
Setting the areas equal, we get:
, and the answer is .
See also
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