To find the surface area of a regular polygon inscribed in a sphere, we can use the following formula:
Surface Area = Number of Faces * Area of Each Face
where:
Number of Faces = number of sides of the polygon Area of Each Face = area of a triangle with vertices at the center of the sphere and two adjacent vertices of the polygon
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In this example, we assume that the polygon has 6 sides and the radius of the sphere is 5. We calculate the side length of the polygon using the formula a = 2 * r * sin(pi/n)
, where n
is the number of sides and pi
is the value of pi (approximately 3.14159). Then, we calculate the area of each face using the formula area = 0.5 * a * r
. Finally, we calculate the surface area of the polygon by multiplying the number of faces by the area of each face. The output of the program is:
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