Triangle in the corner

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Using triangles, the red angle is $\frac{1}{6}$ of $360^\text{o},$ which is $60^\text{o},$ because it is $\frac{1}{6}$ of the circle at the centre of the hexagon.

The triangle is isosceles, so the two green angles are equal, and they add up to $120^\text{o},$ since all of the angles in a triangle add up to $180^\text{o}.$ So they are also $60^\text{o},$ so the triangles are equilateral.

Notice now that the boundary of the grey area is a line of symmetry of the two bottom triangles. So the grey area is the same as the area of two half-triangles, which is the same as one whole triangle.

So the grey area is $\frac{1}{6}$ of the area of the hexagon, which is $\frac{1}{6}$ of $48$ m$^2,$ which is $8$ m$^2.$

 

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Using rhombuses, the sides marked as parallel must be parallel. This is because the lines used to split the hexagon into diamonds must be along lines of symmetry of the hexagon.

This means the quadrilaterals must be parallelograms, and so they must be rhombuses, since all of the sides of the hexagon are equal.

So the rhombuses are symmetrical and the boundary of the grey area is a line of symmetry of the bottom rhombus. So the grey area is the same as the area of half a rhombus, which is is $\frac{1}{6}$ of the area of the hexagon, which is $\frac{1}{6}$ of $48$ m$^2,$ which is $8$ m$^2.$

Using trigonometry

The interior angle of a hexagon is $120^\text{o}$ (there are various ways to show this, including using the diagram above, or splitting the hexagon into triangles and counting angles, or using exterior angles), which is shown on the diagram below.

Finding the areas of the 3 shapes on the diagram below in terms of the side length $s$ will allow us to find the $s$ and therefore the shaded area.

 

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Using the formula for the area of a triangle $A=\frac{1}{2}ab\sin{C},$ the area of the shaded triangle is $\frac{1}{2}s^2\sin{120}=\frac{1}{4}s^2\sqrt{3}$ m$^2.$

The area of the green triangle is also $\frac{1}{4}s^2\sqrt{3}$ m$^2.$ The area of the rectangle is $as$ m$^2,$ where we can find $a$ using the cosine rule:$$\begin{align}&a^2=s^2+s^2-2\times s\times s \cos{120}\\

\Rightarrow&a^2=2s^2-s^2\cos{120}\\

\Rightarrow&a^2=3s^2\\

\Rightarrow&a=\sqrt{3s^2}=s\sqrt{3}\end{align}$$ So the area of the rectangle is $s\sqrt{3}\times s = s^2\sqrt{3}$ m$^2.$

That is four times the area of the shaded triangle, since $4\times\frac{1}{4}s^2\sqrt{3}=s^2\sqrt{3}.$ So the shaded triangle fits into the hexagon $2+4=6$ times - so it occupies $\frac{1}{6}$ of the total area of the hexagon. So its area is $\frac{1}{6}$ of $48$ m$^2,$ which is $8$ m$^2.$