How do you find the area of a trapezoid?

1 Answer
Mar 20, 2018

ATrapezoid=12(b1+b2)h

Explanation:

This is always the formula for solving the area of a trapezoid, where b1 is base 1 and b2 is base 2.

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If we were to solve for the area of this trapezoid, it would be

A=12(8+6)4
A=12(14)4
A=74
A=28units2 Remember that area units are always squared

You may also see it written as

A=a+b2h, which is still the same thing

Sidenote: You may have noticed that the 7 and 5 became negligible when solving the area, as these will never be used for area of a trapezoid.