Louisa drew a polygon with six sides of equal length. If the perimeter of Louisa's polygon is 95.4 centimeters, how long is each side? Use an equation to solve

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Answer:

15.9 centimeters

Step-by-step explanation:

the information we have is:

Perimeter: [tex]P=95.4cm[/tex]

Number of sides of the polygon: [tex]n=6[/tex]

since each side has equal length, we can use the following equation to find the measure of one side of the polygon, the equation for perimeter:

[tex]P=nl[/tex]

where n is the number of sides and [tex]l[/tex] is the length of each side.

So we clear for [tex]l[/tex] and we get:

[tex]l=\frac{P}{n}[/tex]

and subtituting the known values:

[tex]l=\frac{95.4cm}{6}\\ l=15.9cm[/tex]

each side is 15.6 centimeters long