Suppose you have 20 feet of fencing that you want to put around a hexagonal garden. How long will each side of the fence be?

Question

How do I figure out an answer for this?

Answer 1

So you have a hexagonal garden. The garden has 6 sides. And you wanna use all 20 feet of fencing for those 6 sides. So it's going to be 20/6 because you are trying to figure out how much is each side going to measure. So 20/6 is 10/3. 10/3 is about 3.33 units. Therefore each side is going to be about 3.33 feet. Or if you wanna measure in whole numbers, it's about 3 feet for each side.