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Obtaining the general equation to the area of regular polygon
Introduction
In Primary School, we learned that a regular polygon can be divided into a number of congruent, equilateral triangles. This number is the same as the polygon’s number of sides. The area of the polygon can be calculated by adding up the areas of all these triangles. We hope to investigate the relationship between a polygon’s area and its number of sides and the length of each side in the end. As a final result, we hope to come up with a formula to calculate the area of any regular polygon and do some further exploration.
Mathematical Investigation / Exploration
When we first started to consider the ways of finding the area of polygons, we inspected the characteristics of regular polygon and discovered that each regular polygon are made up of identical isosceles triangles and the number of these triangles is exactly the same as the number of sides. We also know that two identical right-angled triangles will be formed if we bisect the isosceles triangle.
By using the tangent law, we can express the adjacent side of the right-angled triangle in terms of the number of sides and the length of each side. Therefore in order to obtain the area, we just need to know the number of sides and the length of them.
We let the length of the sides be n and the number of sides be s and here we are going to obtain the general formula step by step:

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...blems. In the project, we have encountered numerous difficulties. Sometimes, we need to finish it by ourselves or sometimes even seek help from teachers. These experience will surely change us and allow us to face more challenging problems in the future. This project will surely equip us to be a better communicator, a person who could think more critically and a creative person who would be able to solve a problem with different methods.
Conclusion
The area of any regular polygons can be found with the below formula and we can find the value of pi using our formula.

A =
Where: n = the number of sides s = the length of one side
A = area of regular polygon

Bibliography or References

Found at: http://formulas.tutorvista.com/math/sine-cosine-tangent-formulas.html

Found at: http://lotsasplainin.blogspot.hk/2010/02/wednesday-math-vol-108-trigonometry-and.html

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