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What is the area of this shape?

What is the area of this shape?-example-1
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Answer:

144

Explanation:

The shape is a trapezoid.

Add 6 and 112, which is eighteen

divide eighteen by 2, which is 9

Finally, multiply 9 and sixteen which is 144

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Area =1/2(sum of parallel base) x (perpendicular height)

A=(1/2)(a+b)h
A=(1/2)(6+12)(16)
A= (1/2)(18)(16)
A=(9 x 16)
A=144 in2
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