Question

15. The area of regular octagon below is 560 square inches. Find the area of the shaded
region​

Answer 1

Answer:

An octagon is a polygon with eight sides; a polygon being a two-dimensional closed figure made of straight line segments with three or more sides.The word octagon comes from the greek oktágōnon, “eight angles”.  In a regular polygon, there are 8 sides of equal length and equal internal angles – 1350. An irregular octagon is one which has 8 different sides. Irregular polygons are not considered as having a centre and are not symmetric. The STOP sign used in many countries comes in the shape of an octagon. In this article, find out various methods and formulae to calculate area of octagon.