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How do you find the area of a trapezoid? Help. Please. Fast!

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It's the average of the lengths of the two parallel sides {(a+b)/2} times the height of the trapezoid (to find this, you might have to create a right triangle and run the pythagorean theorem).
How do you find the area of a trapezoid? Help. Please. Fast!-example-1
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