find the surface area of a regular polygon inscribed in a triangular prism in php

To find the surface area of a regular polygon inscribed in a triangular prism, we need to calculate the area of each face of the prism and add them up.

First, we need to find the area of the base triangle of the prism. We can do this by using the length of the base, b, and the height of the triangle, h.

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$base_length = 10; // length of the base of the triangle
$height = 8; // height of the triangle

$base_area = ($base_length * $height) / 2; // calculate the area of the base triangle
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Next, we need to find the area of the lateral faces of the prism. Since we have a regular polygon inscribed in the prism, each lateral face is a trapezoid with two sides of equal length.

The height of each trapezoid can be found by dividing the height of the prism, H, by the number of sides in the polygon, n.

main.php
$num_sides = 6; // number of sides in the regular polygon
$prism_height = 20; // height of the rectangular prism

$trapezoid_height = $prism_height / $num_sides; // calculate the height of each trapezoid
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The length of the two parallel sides of the trapezoid can be found using the formula for the perimeter of a regular polygon.

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$side_length = 6; // length of each side of the regular polygon

$trapezoid_base = 2 * $side_length * sin(pi() / $num_sides); // calculate the length of the two parallel sides of the trapezoid
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Finally, we can find the area of each trapezoid and add them up to find the total surface area of the regular polygon inscribed in the triangular prism.

main.php
$lateral_area = $num_sides * (($trapezoid_base + $base_length) / 2) * $trapezoid_height; // calculate the area of the lateral faces

$surface_area = $base_area + $lateral_area; // add up the areas to find the total surface area
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Therefore, the variable $surface_area holds the surface area of the regular polygon inscribed in the triangular prism.