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(Please help!) find the area of the trapezoid by forming a parallelogram

(Please help!) find the area of the trapezoid by forming a parallelogram-example-1

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Answer:

8 square units

Explanation:

The "top" half of the trapezoid of height 4 with bases 3 and 1 can be cut off and added to the "bottom" half to form a parallelogram with a base of 4 and a height of 2. The area of that parallelogram will be ...

A = bh = 4·2 = 8 . . . square units.

(Please help!) find the area of the trapezoid by forming a parallelogram-example-1
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