What length of each side would yield a heptagon with an area of 1400 sq feet? What would its diameters and height be?

Question

I'm trying to design a 7-sided building

Answer 1

Here are some things with which to start.

The length of each edge, e, and the apothem, a, must be determine.

Sketch a heptagon.

It consists of 7 triangles.

The central angle is ___________

Half of the central angle is ________

The area of each triangle is ________

A_triangle= 0.5ae

tan (half of central angle) = (3 / 2) / a.

Can you work with these and answer?