Question

A plan for a dog park has a grassy section and a sitting section as shown in the figure. Which equation can be used to find the area of the grassy section?

Answer 1

1/2 (b+b) h

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Answer 2

`Area=(1)/(2) (B\,+\,b)\,h`

Explanation:

The grassy area is that of a trapezoid, so recall the formula for the area of a trapezoid:

`Area=(1)/(2) (Base\,+\,base)\,height`

where:

Base stands for the larger base (in our case the dimension "B" in the attached image)

base stands for the shorter base parallel to the largest Base (in our case the dimension "b" in the attached image)

and

height stands for the distance between bases (in our case the dimension "h" in the attached image.

Therefore the formula for the area of the grassy section becomes:

`Area=(1)/(2) (Base\,+\,base)\,height\\Area=(1)/(2) (B\,+\,b)\,h`