Question

10. A trapezoid has base lengths of 24 units and 20 units. The height of the trapezoid is one-half as long as the

longer base. What is the area of the trapezoid?

Answer 1

The longer base given: 24. Get the height by taking half of that.

Use the formula for the area of a trapezoid
`A = (b_(1) +b_(2) )/(2) (h)`

Explanation:

Answer 2

264 units.

Explanation:

since the two bases are 20 and 24, the shorter base is usually the shorter number, so the shorter base is 20 units. Which means, the longer base is 24 units. So, half of 24 is 12. So, the height is 12. Then I used to calculator, my results are in the picture below.