Any help with understanding this question please?

[granite adder]

well I’d assume you can split up the dodecagon into several triangles from the centre

then you’d use the side lengths and angles

find the area of the triangles

[broken gust]

use this

what paper is that btw

[wet owl]

tf is an apothem

[broken gust]

distance from centre to the mp of any of the sides

[dreamy mason]

They are not making this question for some guy to whip out some random ah equation they pulled online

[broken gust]

ocr let's u do that

i can do it the normal way too

[granite adder]

it’s pretty easy ngl

no formula needed!

triangle with side length a/2

angle 15 from the centre of the circle

[broken gust]

you basically get the same formula this way just use the formula if you wanna do it in seconds

[austere arch]

It's a solid 3 lines of working why would you memorise a formula at gcse

Also just using some formula has the risk of not being "sufficient working"

[dreamy mason]

Ye

[broken gust]

in ocr you get full marks for any method

i just used that because it was faster

[placid nexus]

is this edexcel 2023?

[wet owl]

because its gcse

[granite adder]

basically yeah