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What is the side length of the octagon?

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An octagon with equal side lengths is made by cutting the corners from a rectangle that has sides of 4 and 6, as shown below.
What is the side length of the octagon?

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posted Apr 2, 2020 by Sandeep Otari

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~2.14


As per below picture, we have:
x=c
2a+x=4 ---> (1) => a=2-x/2
2b+x=6 ---> (2) => b=3-x/2
x^2=a^2+b^2 ---> (3)
Considering (1) and (2) in (3) we get
x^2+10x-26=0 ---> x~ 2.14


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answer Apr 2, 2020 by Hanifa Mammadov



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