Thread: hexagon

Do you want us to find and explain the solution? Or just explain the solution without giving the solution? Where has your working taken you so far?

I just would like and explanation please

with this much you should be able to complete

Originally Posted by ibdutt

with this much you should be able to complete

thank you I have solved it to be 4/3

Good! I presume that you realized from idbutt's picture that the if we take the distance from the center to a vertex of the outer hexagon to be 1, then the distance from the center to the middle of a side of that hexagon is . And that is where the circle touches the hexagon so is a vertex of the inner hexagon. Since those are "equivalent" distances, the ratio of the areas is the square of the ratio of those distances: .