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What is the area of the isosceles trapezoid shown?

What is the area of the isosceles trapezoid shown?-example-1

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Answer:

the answer is 80

Explanation:

you can split the trapezoid into a rectangle and two triangles to find the area

User CROSP
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If you want the area of the entire trapeziod.

The formula for area of a trapeziod is:

1/2h(b₁+b₂)

So the equation applied to the trapeziod is:

2.5(20+12)

20+12 is 32. 32 multiplied by 2.5 is 80.

Your answer is 80.

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