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  • May 8, 2011, 04:44 PM
    boerklong
    Calculating volume of a hexagonal glass?
    What is the formula for calculating volume of a hexagonal container? I need to make a coontainer that will hold 300ml and it must be a hexagon. Thks
  • May 8, 2011, 08:57 PM
    jcaron2

    The volume is

    ,

    where s is the length of one of the six sides, and h is the height.

    Also, for what it's worth, the maximum diameter of a hexagon (the distance across from vertex to vertex) is twice the length of a side, or 2s.

    Hence, to hold 300ml (a.k.a. 300 cubic centimeters), you could use, for example, sides of length 4 cm (i.e. a diameter of 8 cm). That would result in a required height of just over 7.2 cm (because ).

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