Question

The area of a regular heptagon can be found by breaking the heptagon into seven congruent triangles and then taking the sum of their areas. True or false

Answer 1

True

Explanation:

The area of a regular polygon is found by multiplying 1/2 times the apothem times the perimeter. The area for a single triangle is 1/2 times the height (which is the same as the apothem of a regular polygon) times the base (which is one of the sides of the regular polygon which you are multiplying by to find the perimeter of the polygon).

Answer 2

The given statement is true.

Explanation:

The area of a regular heptagon can be found by breaking the heptagon into seven congruent triangles and then taking the sum of their areas.

This is true.

Breaking down in 7 triangles and adding separately the areas of these triangles, will give the complete area of the heptagon. We can also find the area of one triangle and multiply that by 7 to get the same result.