Question

Find the area of the shape shown below.

Answer 1

32 square units

Explanation:

`\displaystyle A=(1)/(2)(b_1+b_2)h=(1)/(2)(12+4)(4)=(1)/(2)(16)(4)=(1)/(2)(64)=32`

Note that
`b_1` and
`b_2` are the lengths of each base of the trapezoid, so it doesn't matter which is which.

Answer 2

The answer is 32

Explanation:

The formula for finding the area of a trapezoid is:

((base 1 + base 2)/ 2 )* h

Now all you have to do is substitute the numbers in.

Note: bases will always be the ones like 12 and 4 in this case. We have just named then 1 and 2.