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Geometry Difficulty 3.1 AMC 10/12 Find the answer

The area of a circle inscribed in a regular hexagon is 100π100\pi. The area of hexagon is:

Pick one

Solution

We can split the hexagon into 6 equilateral triangles. If the area of the circle is 100pi100pi, then the radius is 1010. The radius is equal to the height of one of the equilateral triangles. Using sin60=32sin60 = \frac{\sqrt3}{2}, we get the hypotenuse is 2033\frac{20\sqrt{3}}{3}, which is also equal to the side length. Using the hexagon formula (or going back to the equilateral triangle formula 6\cdot 6), we get
64s23\frac{6}{4} \cdot s^2\sqrt{3} \Rightarrow 64(2033)23\frac{6}{4} \cdot (\frac{20\sqrt3}{3})^2 \cdot \sqrt3 \Rightarrow 64203320333\frac{6}{4} \cdot \frac{20\sqrt3}{3} \cdot \frac{20\sqrt3}{3} \cdot \sqrt3 \Rightarrow 2003\boxed{200\sqrt3}

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