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zabria
Dec 11, 2010, 02:26 PM
Each side of a regular pentagon is 48 cm. find the length of the radius of a circle inscribed in a pentagon

galactus
Dec 11, 2010, 04:00 PM
\frac{L}{2}cot(\frac{\pi}{n})

or, if in degrees:

\frac{L}{2}cot(\frac{180}{n})

n is the number of sides and L is the length of a side.