find the surface area of a regular polygon circumscribed around a cone in javascript

To find the surface area of a regular polygon circumscribed around a cone, we need to determine the area of the circular base and the area of the lateral surface.

First, we need to find the radius(r) and slant height(l) of the cone. We can do this using the Pythagorean theorem where h is the height of the cone and s is the side length of the polygon:

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const n = 5; // for example, a pentagon
const s = 10; // side length of the polygon
const h = 15; // height of the cone

const r = s / (2 * Math.sin(Math.PI/n));
const l = Math.sqrt(h**2 + r**2);
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Next, we can calculate the area of the circular base using Math.PI and the formula for the area of a circle:

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const baseArea = Math.PI * r**2;
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To find the area of the lateral surface, we need to find the perimeter(p) of the polygon:

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const p = s * n;
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Using this perimeter, we can determine the area of one triangular face of the polygon:

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const faceArea = (l * s) / 2;
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Then, we can find the total area of the lateral surface by multiplying the area of one face by the number of faces(n):

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const lateralArea = faceArea * n;
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Finally, we can add the base and lateral areas to find the total surface area:

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const totalSurfaceArea = baseArea + lateralArea;
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Thus, the function to find the surface area of a regular polygon circumscribed around a cone in JavaScript can be written as:

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function surfaceAreaOfConeCircumscribedByPolygon(n, s, h) {
  const r = s / (2 * Math.sin(Math.PI/n));
  const l = Math.sqrt(h**2 + r**2);
  const baseArea = Math.PI * r**2;
  const p = s * n;
  const faceArea = (l * s) / 2;
  const lateralArea = faceArea * n;
  const totalSurfaceArea = baseArea + lateralArea;
  return totalSurfaceArea;
}

// Call the function with example values
surfaceAreaOfConeCircumscribedByPolygon(5, 10, 15); // Output: 822.7155432061369
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