Question

Frank cuts a piece of cork to make trivet that has the shape and dimensions as shown.Find The Area Of The Trivet.Round Your Answer to the nearest tenth if needed

Answer 1

52.5

Explanation:

First, we can see that the base is 14m. The top is 7m, and the height is 5m. Since the formula for a trapezoid is

top + base / 2 ∙ h,

we plug in our numbers to get

7 + 14 / 2 ∙ 5.

We can solve to get

21 / 2 ∙ 5

10.5 ∙ 5

52.5