Calculating the length of a side of a polygon

Practice Questions

GMAT Quantitative Reasoning › Calculating the length of a side of a polygon

Questions
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1

The perimeter of a regular pentagon is one-fifth of a mile. Give its sidelength in feet.

2

The perimeter of a regular pentagon is three kilometers. Give its sidelength in meters.

3

The perimeter of a regular octagon is two kilometers. Give its sidelength in meters.

4

The perimeter of a regular hexagon is one-half of a mile. Give the sidelength in inches.

5

If the shape is a regular hexagon with side length of and a perimeter of meters, what is the length of one side?

6

A regular hexagon has perimeter . Which of the following is equal to the length of one side?

7

Six regular polygons each have perimeter one mile. The polygons are an equilateral triangle, a square, a pentagon, a hexagon, an octagon, and a decagon (ten-sided polygon). What is the mean of their sidelengths?

8

A pentagon with a perimeter of one mile has three congruent sides; one of the other sides is 100 feet longer than any of those three congruent sides, and the remaining side is 100 feet longer than that fourth side. What is the length of that longest side?

9

A regular octagon has perimeter . Give the length of one of its sides.

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